grigou
French, noun/ɡʁi.ɡu/
grigou is spelled G-R-I-G-O-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grigou is a French masculine noun meaning “scrooge (miser)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui, ayant de quoi vivre, affecte la pauvreté pour servir de prétexte à une avarice sordide”.
What does grigou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescrooge (miser)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui, ayant de quoi vivre, affecte la pauvreté pour servir de prétexte à une avarice sordide.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grigou
- grigous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grigou?
- /ɡʁi.ɡu/
- \ɡʁi.ɡu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grigou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grigou in French?
grigou appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).