grimpa
\ɡʁɛ̃.pa\
The verdict
“grimpa” is uncommon French (frequency #80,258 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,258
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de grimper.
| 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) |
Where “grimpa” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
grimpa is uncommon French at frequency #80,258 among 194,371 “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.
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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Using “grimpa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-I-M-P-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.