grin
The verdict
“grin” is uncommon French (frequency #81,208 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,208
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Mali)Groupe informel de jeunes qui se réunissent quotidiennement (typiquement autour du thé).
Corpus desk
Index FR-grin · grin · French
grin · rank #81,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,208
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grizzlies
Nearest frequency peer: grizzlies (+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 « grin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gouvion
Gouvion
18,798 corpus weight
- goûtait
goûtait
18,797 corpus weight
- Grandpré
Grandpré
18,796 corpus weight
- grin
grin
18,793 corpus weight
- grizzlies
grizzlies
18,792 corpus weight
- Guiot
Guiot
18,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grin is uncommon French at frequency #81,208 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Mali)Groupe informel de jeunes qui se réunissent quotidiennement (typiquement autour du thé).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grin, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grin, spelled G-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1(Mali)Groupe informel de jeunes qui se réunissent quotidiennement (typiquement autour du thé).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le grin au Mali est un lieu de rencontre, de distraction, d’échanges, là où les jeunes de même génération et même les adultes, se réunissent autour du thé. « Le grin aujourd’hui : C’est le règne de la futilité », , 29 mai 2013.
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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