grignote
\ɡʁi.ɲɔt\
The verdict
“grignote” is uncommon French (frequency #50,245 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,245
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de grignoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grignote · grignote · French
grignote · rank #50,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,245
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grenadine
Nearest frequency peer: grenadine (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grignote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goth
goth
49,759 corpus weight
- grammairien
grammairien
49,758 corpus weight
- grenadine
grenadine
49,757 corpus weight
- grignote
grignote
49,756 corpus weight
- grossisseme…
grossissement
49,755 corpus weight
- guez
guez
49,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grignote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grignote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.ɲɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grignote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grignote is uncommon French at frequency #50,245 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁi.ɲɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grignote, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is grignote, spelled G-R-I-G-N-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de grignoter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de grignoter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de grignoter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de grignoter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de grignoter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grignote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent, on grignote, on buvote, on regrignote, on rebuvote et ainsi de suite.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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