grimasse
\ɡʁi.mas\
The verdict
“grimasse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de grimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grimasse · grimasse · French
grimasse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grimasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.mas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grimasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grimasse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁi.mas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de grimer.".
grimasse has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grimasse, spelled G-R-I-M-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de grimer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.