griotte
\ɡʁi.jɔt\
The verdict
“griotte” is uncommon French (frequency #95,969 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,969
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de cerise sure à jus coloré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-griotte · griotte · French
griotte · rank #95,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,969
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grosseto
Nearest frequency peer: Grosseto (+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 « griotte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grabataire
grabataire
4,036 corpus weight
- grandissaie…
grandissaient
4,035 corpus weight
- grape
grape
4,034 corpus weight
- griotte
griotte
4,032 corpus weight
- Grosseto
Grosseto
4,031 corpus weight
- gust
gust
4,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « griotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | griotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « griotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
griotte is uncommon French at frequency #95,969 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁi.jɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for griotte in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is griotte, spelled G-R-I-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de cerise sure à jus coloré.
- 2Marbre rouge foncé tacheté de rouge vif et de brun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how griotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je demandai à ma mère d’aller aux vergers cueillir la cerise. On en était aux griottes, rouges comme le sang caillé, translucides comme des pierres précieuses.
Le carrelage rouge du sol est sans doute la populaire griotte d’Italie ; le marbre vert du panneau du fond et du cercle du Christ, le verde antico, la serpentine de Toscane dont les Florentins se sont servis pour leurs grandes églises ; les barres noires, du marbre noir des Alpes fréquent aussi dans l’architecture toscane comme le marbre sombre à veines r…
Synonyms
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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