grippe

/\ɡʁip\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,836

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

grippe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prise, emprise. Pronounced \ɡʁip\. It ranks #7,836 in French word frequency. Often confused with grise and groupe.

Key facts for grippe
PropertyValue
Headwordgrippe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁip\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,836
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grippe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grippe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for grippe, with forms such as "ggrippe", "girppe", and "gripe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "grise", "groupe", "grip", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grippe, spelled G-R-I-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prise, emprise.
  2. 2
    Caprice dicté par une mode, goût passager ou subit pour quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Avoir, prendre en grippe (quelqu’un ou quelque chose) : Manifester une prévention motivée ou non contre (quelqu’un ou quelque chose).
  4. 4
    Zoonose 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. 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grippe

Misspelling Variants of "grippe"

ggrippe7girppe6gripe5gripep6grpipe6grrippe7rgippe6
Misspelling Variants of "grippe"

Frequency rank: #7,836 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grippe"?
"grippe" is spelled G-R-I-P-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁip\.
What does "grippe" mean?
As a noun, "grippe" means: Prise, emprise.
What words are commonly confused with "grippe"?
"grippe" is commonly confused with "grise", "groupe", "grip". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grippe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grippe" is \ɡʁip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grippe" come from?
"grippe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.