grillade
\ɡʁi.jad\
The verdict
“grillade” is uncommon French (frequency #60,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,838
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de griller, manière d’apprêter certains morceaux de viande ou de poisson en les grillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grillade · grillade · French
grillade · rank #60,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,838
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grelots
Nearest frequency peer: grelots (-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 « grillade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- greffons
greffons
39,166 corpus weight
- grelot
grelot
39,165 corpus weight
- grelots
grelots
39,164 corpus weight
- grillade
grillade
39,163 corpus weight
- gustative
gustative
39,161 corpus weight
- Gwendoline
Gwendoline
39,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grillade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grillade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.jad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grillade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grillade is uncommon French at frequency #60,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.jad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
grillade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grillade, spelled G-R-I-L-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action de griller, manière d’apprêter certains morceaux de viande ou de poisson en les grillant.
- 2Action de griller, manière d’apprêter certains morceaux de viande ou de poisson en les grillant.
- 3Ces viandes et ces poissons grillés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grillade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mettre des tranches de filet de bœuf à la grillade.
Non, non, j’ai pris sur-le-champ la résolution d’aider à quelque bonne œuvre, comme à la grillade d’une sorcière, à un combat judiciaire ou à quelque service pareil, et voilà pourquoi je suis ici.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).