grincent
\ɡʁɛ̃s\
The verdict
“grincent” is uncommon French (frequency #80,259 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,259
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de grincer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grincent · grincent · French
grincent · rank #80,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,259
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grimpa
Nearest frequency peer: grimpa (-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 « grincent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- guichetier
guichetier
19,737 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grincent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grincent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grincent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grincent is uncommon French at frequency #80,259 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁɛ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for grincent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 grincent, spelled G-R-I-N-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de grincer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de grincer.
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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