grincement
\ɡʁɛ̃s.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“grincement” is uncommon French (frequency #54,615 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,615
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit désagréable produit par certains frottements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grincement · grincement · French
grincement · rank #54,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,615
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH greffés
Nearest frequency peer: greffés (-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 « grincement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gorée
Gorée
45,389 corpus weight
- gouda
gouda
45,388 corpus weight
- greffés
greffés
45,387 corpus weight
- grincement
grincement
45,386 corpus weight
- Groland
Groland
45,384 corpus weight
- guacamole
guacamole
45,383 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grincement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grincement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ̃s.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grincement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grincement is uncommon French at frequency #54,615 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɛ̃s.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
grincement has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grincement, spelled G-R-I-N-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Bruit désagréable produit par certains frottements.
- 2Action de grincer les dents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grincement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De ma mère on ne voit rien, on n’entend rien, qu’un grincement de soie : ce sont ses ongles qui en veulent à sa ceinture. Ce grincement dans le silence a quelque chose de terrible. Pour des augures, c’eût été un présage ; pour mon pauvre père, c’en était un aussi ; il annonçait des malheurs. Il devait nous en arriver au moins un, en effet, dans cette vill…
Hervé les avait vus distinctement tracasser la grille et un grincement de ferrailles lui apprit qu'ils l’avaient fermé à clé, derrière eux, après l’avoir ouverte en arrivant, et qu'ils étaient en train de la rouvrir pour s’en aller.
This word in other languages
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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