gringo
\ɡʁin.ɡo\
The verdict
“gringo” is uncommon French (frequency #63,037 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,037
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Américain blanc d’origine européenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gringo · gringo · French
gringo · rank #63,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,037
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grimpantes
Nearest frequency peer: grimpantes (-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 « gringo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grandie
grandie
36,968 corpus weight
- greffée
greffée
36,967 corpus weight
- grimpait
grimpait
36,966 corpus weight
- grimpantes
grimpantes
36,965 corpus weight
- gringo
gringo
36,964 corpus weight
- grossissant
grossissant
36,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gringo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gringo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁin.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gringo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gringo is uncommon French at frequency #63,037 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁin.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gringo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gringo, spelled G-R-I-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Américain blanc d’origine européenne.
- 2Étranger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gringo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous devriez, au lieu de faire le jeu de ce gringo (le gringo, c'était moi), lui faire passer l'arme à gauche et vous joindre à nous autres.
Dans la quiétude monotone de la vie de pasteur, sa pensée se reporte vers les grandes guerres où se jouait il ne sait quelle partie contre un ennemi qu'il discernait mal, qui était certainement un gringo, un étranger usurpateur.
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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