grillent
\ɡʁij\
The verdict
“grillent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,851 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,851
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de griller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grillent · grillent · French
grillent · rank #84,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,851
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grillagée
Nearest frequency peer: grillagée (-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 « grillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gravière
gravière
15,153 corpus weight
- greffées
greffées
15,152 corpus weight
- grillagée
grillagée
15,151 corpus weight
- grillent
grillent
15,150 corpus weight
- gringe
gringe
15,149 corpus weight
- Grohl
Grohl
15,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grillent is uncommon French at frequency #84,851 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
grillent has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grillent, spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de griller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de griller.
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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