grill

\ɡʁil\

/\ɡʁil\/ noun

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The verdict

“grill” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,616) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#24,616
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Restaurant où l’on sert des grillades.

Corpus desk

Index FR-grill · grill · French

grill · rank #24,616 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,616
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gracieux

Nearest frequency peer: gracieux (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « grill »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « grill » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

grill vs gris
60% similar
grill vs grip
60% similar
grill vs grise
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « grill »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).grillse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gracieux » (#24,615), « gonflable » (#24,614), « gué » (#24,618). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « grill » est au #24,616. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for grill is neighbouring look-alikes ("gris", "grip", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡʁil\. Frequency #24,616 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Restaurant où l’on sert des grillades.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for grill, with forms such as "ggrill", "grlil", and "grrill". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.

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 grill, spelled G-R-I-L-L.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how grill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il avait dîné de bonne heure, au moins deux heures plus tôt et d’une manière très sobre, dans un grill de la rive droite.

This word in other languages

asador(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ggrill
  • grlil
  • grrill
  • rgill

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grill - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ggrill1grlil2grrill1rgill2
Edit distance from "grill"

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.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grill", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

garce#24,610foute#24,598Josée#24,647legal#24,656

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list