grimoires
\ɡʁi.mwaʁ\
The verdict
“grimoires” is uncommon French (frequency #96,980 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,980
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de grimoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grimoires · grimoires · French
grimoires · rank #96,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,980
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GRH
Nearest frequency peer: GRH (-2 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 « grimoires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gracilis
gracilis
3,025 corpus weight
- gravant
gravant
3,024 corpus weight
- GRH
GRH
3,023 corpus weight
- grimoires
grimoires
3,021 corpus weight
- grisbi
grisbi
3,019 corpus weight
- grognent
grognent
3,018 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grimoires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grimoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.mwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grimoires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grimoires is uncommon French at frequency #96,980 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.mwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de grimoire.".
grimoires has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grimoires, spelled G-R-I-M-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de grimoire.
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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