grincer
French, verb/ɡʁɛ̃.se/
grincer is spelled G-R-I-N-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 30,103rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grincer is a French verb meaning “to squeak (emit sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire un bruit aigre, strident et métallique”.
What does grincer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to squeak (emit sound)
- 2
to creak, rasp, squeal
- 3
to gnash
- 4
to squawk
- 5
to grumble
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire un bruit aigre, strident et métallique. 2. Produire un bruit aigre en serrant les dents les unes contre les autres sous l’action de l’agacement, de la douleur ou de la colère. 3. Crier, en parlant particulièrement de la chauve-souris. 4. S’exprimer avec aigreur, en désapprouvant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grincer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grinçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grincé participle past
- grince first-person indicative present
- grinces indicative present second-person
- grinçons first-person indicative plural
- grincez indicative plural present
- grincent indicative plural present
- grinçais first-person imperfect indicative
- grinçait imperfect indicative singular
- grincions first-person imperfect indicative
- grinciez imperfect indicative plural
- grinçaient imperfect indicative plural
- grinçai first-person historic indicative
- grinças historic indicative past
- grinça historic indicative past
- grinçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grincer?
- /ɡʁɛ̃.se/
- \ɡʁɛ̃.se\
- [ɡʁɛ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grincer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grincer in French?
grincer appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).