grimace
\ɡʁi.mas\
The verdict
“grimace” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,333
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contorsion du visage faite souvent à dessein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grimace · grimace · French
grimace · rank #21,333 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,333
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH graveur
Nearest frequency peer: graveur (-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 « grimace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- globales
globales
78,671 corpus weight
- glorieuses
glorieuses
78,670 corpus weight
- graveur
graveur
78,669 corpus weight
- grimace
grimace
78,668 corpus weight
- gui
gui
78,666 corpus weight
- guignol
guignol
78,665 corpus weight
What this shows « grimace » 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 | grimace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.mas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grimace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around grimace (IPA \ɡʁi.mas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,333 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for grimace, with forms such as "ggrimace", "girmace", and "griamce". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "grimpé", "grince", "grimaud", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grimace, spelled G-R-I-M-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Contorsion du visage faite souvent à dessein.
- 2Feinte ; fausses apparences ; dissimulation ; simagrées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grimace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un de nos hommes, pour s'amuser, se mit à loucher et à faire des grimaces; aussitôt un des jeunes Fuégiens, dont le visage était peint tout en noir, sauf une bande blanche à la hauteur des yeux, se mit aussi à faire des grimaces et il faut avouer qu'elles étaient bien plus hideuses que celles de notre matelot.
Il avait réussi à prendre quelques photos : des CRS à moitié endormis, bottés et casqués, le Mauser lance-grenades à la bretelle, rencognés, non loin du CHU et de la fac de droit, comme une poignée d’oiseaux mouillés, sous les grimaces provocatrices et vengeresses des masques de pierre du vieil hôtel de Cerisy ; un garde-mobile ronflant la bouche ouverte,…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrimace
- girmace
- griamce
- grimacce
- grimaec
- grimcae
- grimmace
- grmiace
- grrimace
- rgimace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grimace - 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.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).