grinder
The verdict
“grinder” is uncommon French (frequency #65,199 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,199
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moulin à herbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grinder · grinder · French
grinder · rank #65,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,199
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grigori
Nearest frequency peer: Grigori (-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 « grinder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goélands
goélands
34,806 corpus weight
- Grigori
Grigori
34,803 corpus weight
- grinder
grinder
34,802 corpus weight
- Guesde
Guesde
34,801 corpus weight
- guépards
guépards
34,800 corpus weight
- gérons
gérons
34,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grinder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grinder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grinder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grinder is uncommon French at frequency #65,199 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moulin à herbes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grinder, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is grinder, spelled G-R-I-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Moulin à herbes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grinder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Passe-moi le grinder, s’il te plaît.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).