grillet

\ɡʁi.jɛ\

/\ɡʁi.jɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“grillet” is uncommon French (frequency #52,090 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,090
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sonnette ronde placée au cou des chiens et aux pieds des oiseaux de proie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-grillet · grillet · French

grillet · rank #52,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,090
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gri

Nearest frequency peer: gri (-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 « grillet »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grillet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for grillet
PropertyValue
Headwordgrillet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁi.jɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,090
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « grillet » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).grillettombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « gri » (#52,089), « Guam » (#52,091), « gravitationnelles » (#52,088). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « grillet » est au #52,090. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

grillet is uncommon French at frequency #52,090 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for grillet in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grillet, spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sonnette ronde placée au cou des chiens et aux pieds des oiseaux de proie.
  2. 2
    Meuble représentant le grelot de fauconnerie dans les armoiries. Synonyme de grelot, il est pas possible de les différencier surtout s’il n’est pas placé avec un rapace ou si l’on ignore une tradition de fauconnerie dans la région liée aux armoiries. Son usage est plutôt ancien et assez limité. Dans le doute, on parlera plutôt de grelot. À rapprocher de cloche, clochette et grelot.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. D’azur à sept grillets d’or, cinq ordonnés en sautoir soutenus de deux rangés en pal, qui est de la commune de Lantenot de Haute-Saône → voir illustration « armoiries avec 7 grillets »

Synonyms

grillettegrelot

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 "grillet"?
"grillet" is spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁi.jɛ\.
What does "grillet" mean?
As a noun, "grillet" means: Sonnette ronde placée au cou des chiens et aux pieds des oiseaux de proie.
How do you pronounce "grillet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grillet" is \ɡʁi.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list