grigri
\ɡʁi.ɡʁi\
The verdict
“grigri” is uncommon French (frequency #90,782 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,782
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - [Alt: Gri-gri grec en osier]Petit objet que l’on conserve par-devers soi pour écarter le mauvais sort ou les mauvais esprits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grigri · grigri · French
grigri · rank #90,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,782
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH graça
Nearest frequency peer: graça (-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 « grigri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Goyer
Goyer
9,222 corpus weight
- grandiloque…
grandiloquence
9,221 corpus weight
- graça
graça
9,220 corpus weight
- grigri
grigri
9,219 corpus weight
- grisonnant
grisonnant
9,217 corpus weight
- grondait
grondait
9,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grigri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grigri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.ɡʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grigri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grigri is uncommon French at frequency #90,782 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.ɡʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grigri, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grigri, spelled G-R-I-G-R-I.
Definition
- 1[Alt: Gri-gri grec en osier]Petit objet que l’on conserve par-devers soi pour écarter le mauvais sort ou les mauvais esprits.
- 2Petit morceau de papier sur lequel le marabout écrit un texte, souvent un verset du Coran, et que l’on garde sur soi afin de se protéger.
- 3Tout objet de petite taille auquel on attribue une vertu magique bénéfique ou maléfique.
- 4Petit instrument utilisé par les amateurs d’escalade pour freiner la corde à laquelle sont encordés les grimpeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grigri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon guide me dit en grand secret, que les marchands qui ont de l’or, le cachent dans des grigris couverts d’une peau tannée, et qu’ils suspendent à leur cou avec une courroie de cuir.
Elle feignit de ne pas comprendre ma malice et m’éleva sans colère jusqu’à elle. Alors ma tête heurte, sur sa poitrine, un grigri, et son pays m’apparaît, avec ses mornes et ses criques.
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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