grimpa
\ɡʁɛ̃.pa\
The verdict
“grimpa” is uncommon French (frequency #80,258 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,258
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de grimper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grimpa · grimpa · French
grimpa · rank #80,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,258
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grenaille
Nearest frequency peer: grenaille (-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 « grimpa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gord
gord
19,748 corpus weight
- goude
goude
19,747 corpus weight
- grasshopper
grasshopper
19,746 corpus weight
- grenaille
grenaille
19,744 corpus weight
- grimpa
grimpa
19,743 corpus weight
- grincent
grincent
19,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grimpa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grimpa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ̃.pa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grimpa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grimpa is uncommon French at frequency #80,258 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁɛ̃.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de grimper.".
Zero misspellings are on record for grimpa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grimpa, spelled G-R-I-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de grimper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grimpa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, elle grimpa sur un faux ébénier, se nicha dans la houppe verte de cet arbre, et se mit à regarder l’étranger avec l’attention du plus curieux de tous les rossignols de la forêt.
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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