grimacer
\ɡʁi.ma.se\
The verdict
“grimacer” is uncommon French (frequency #77,572 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,572
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une grimace, des grimaces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grimacer · grimacer · French
grimacer · rank #77,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,572
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grenouillère
Nearest frequency peer: grenouillère (-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 « grimacer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gramophone
gramophone
22,432 corpus weight
- grenouillère
grenouillère
22,430 corpus weight
- grimacer
grimacer
22,429 corpus weight
- Gustin
Gustin
22,425 corpus weight
- génialissime
génialissime
22,424 corpus weight
- Göttingen
Göttingen
22,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grimacer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grimacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.ma.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grimacer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grimacer is uncommon French at frequency #77,572 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁi.ma.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grimacer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is grimacer, spelled G-R-I-M-A-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une grimace, des grimaces.
- 2Faire quelque chose de façon grimaçante.
- 3Manifester un sentiment par une expression excessivement marquée du visage.
- 4Avoir une physionomie, une expression outrée.
- 5Faire un mauvais pli, en parlant de vêtements ou d’étoffes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grimacer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La petite dame du type « conoïde » tristement inexpressif, que l’absence de menton fait comiquement grimacer alors qu’elle s’imagine gracieusement sourire, se proclame volontiers reine de beauté, […].
Ah! cette ville imbécile et mortelle […]. Elle prend des aspects de nécropole où les macchabées folâtres auraient licence de grimacer et de gesticuler sous un ciel putride, gonflé comme un égout.
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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