grilles
\ɡʁij\
The verdict
“grilles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,606
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de grille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grilles · grilles · French
grilles · rank #13,606 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH griller
Nearest frequency peer: griller (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « grilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gouvernemen…
gouvernemental
86,398 corpus weight
- GP
GP
86,397 corpus weight
- griller
griller
86,396 corpus weight
- grilles
grilles
86,395 corpus weight
- gérée
gérée
86,394 corpus weight
- habillée
habillée
86,392 corpus weight
What this shows « grilles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around grilles (IPA \ɡʁij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,606 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de grille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for grilles, with forms such as "ggrilles", "girlles", and "grilels". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "grises", "grillon", "grillons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grilles, spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de grille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous seuls, pauvres ilotes de province pour qui les distances sociales sont plus longues à parcourir que pour les Parisiens aux yeux desquels elles se raccourcissent de jour en jour, vous sur qui pèsent si durement les grilles entre lesquelles chacun des différents mondes du monde s’anathématise et se dit Raca, vous seuls comprendrez le bouleversement qui…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrilles
- girlles
- grilels
- griles
- grilless
- grillse
- grliles
- grrilles
- rgilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grilles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).