grippaux
\ɡʁi.po\
The verdict
“grippaux” is uncommon French (frequency #86,761 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,761
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de grippal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grippaux · grippaux · French
grippaux · rank #86,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,761
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grisonnants
Nearest frequency peer: grisonnants (+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 « grippaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grasso
grasso
13,244 corpus weight
- greyhound
greyhound
13,242 corpus weight
- grippaux
grippaux
13,240 corpus weight
- grisonnants
grisonnants
13,239 corpus weight
- Grésivaudan
Grésivaudan
13,238 corpus weight
- guilleret
guilleret
13,234 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grippaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grippaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.po\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grippaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grippaux is uncommon French at frequency #86,761 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁi.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de grippal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grippaux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grippaux, spelled G-R-I-P-P-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de grippal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grippaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis forcé de suspendre mes activités aujourd’hui en raison de symptômes grippaux.
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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