grill

/\ɡʁil\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#24,616

in French word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grill is aFrenchnoun. It means: Restaurant où l’on sert des grillades. Pronounced \ɡʁil\. Often confused with gris and grip.

Key facts for grill
PropertyValue
Headwordgrill
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁil\
Letters5
Frequency rank#24,616
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grill in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grill is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁil\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,616 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Restaurant où l’on sert des grillades.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for grill, with forms such as "ggrill", "grlil", and "grrill". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gris", "grip", "grise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grill, spelled G-R-I-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Restaurant où l’on sert des grillades.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggrill,grlil,grrill,rgill

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grill

Misspelling Variants of "grill"

ggrill6grlil5grrill6rgill5
Misspelling Variants of "grill"

Frequency rank: #24,616 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grill"?
"grill" is spelled G-R-I-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁil\.
What does "grill" mean?
As a noun, "grill" means: Restaurant où l’on sert des grillades.
What words are commonly confused with "grill"?
"grill" is commonly confused with "gris", "grip", "grise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grill"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grill" is \ɡʁil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grill" come from?
"grill" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.