gringue
French, noun/ɡʁɛ̃ɡ/
gringue is spelled G-R-I-N-G-U-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gringue is a French masculine noun meaning “seduction, wooing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Séduction”.
What does gringue mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseduction, wooing
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Séduction.
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 gringue
- gringues plural
- graingue
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gringue?
- /ɡʁɛ̃ɡ/
- \ɡʁɛ̃ɡ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gringue in French?
gringue appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).