grind
\ɡʁajnd\
The verdict
“grind” is uncommon French (frequency #53,384 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,384
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure consistant à glisser sur un objet avec les trucks.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grind · grind · French
grind · rank #53,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,384
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gravissime
Nearest frequency peer: gravissime (-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 « grind »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gourdes
gourdes
46,619 corpus weight
- gravissime
gravissime
46,618 corpus weight
- grind
grind
46,617 corpus weight
- gymnastes
gymnastes
46,616 corpus weight
- gynécologues
gynécologues
46,615 corpus weight
- hadid
hadid
46,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grind » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grind |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁajnd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grind » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grind is uncommon French at frequency #53,384 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁajnd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figure consistant à glisser sur un objet avec les trucks.".
grind doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grind, spelled G-R-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1Figure consistant à glisser sur un objet avec les trucks.
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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