grippe
\ɡʁip\
The verdict
“grippe” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,836 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,836
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prise, emprise.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grippe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁip\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grippe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grippe is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁip\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,836 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for grippe, with forms such as "ggrippe", "girppe", and "gripe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "grise", "groupe", "grip", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 grippe, spelled G-R-I-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1Prise, emprise.
- 2Caprice dicté par une mode, goût passager ou subit pour quelque chose.
- 3Avoir, prendre en grippe (quelqu’un ou quelque chose) : Manifester une prévention motivée ou non contre (quelqu’un ou quelque chose).
- 4Zoonose infectieuse, épidémique et très contagieuse due aux virus influenza qui débute brusquement et se manifeste chez les humains de façons très variées, sous forme de catarrhe, de gastro-entérite ou de névralgies.
- 5(par extension) Ensemble des infections présentant des symptômes comparables à ceux provoqués par les virus influenza.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrippe,girppe,gripe,gripep,grpipe,grrippe,rgippe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grippe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “grippe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-I-P-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁip\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “grise” - see the side-by-side comparison. grippe vs grise
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.