grippe espagnole
\ɡʁi.p‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\
The verdict
“grippe espagnole” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Une grippe humaine épidémique mondiale (pandémie) particulièrement virulente et contagieuse survenue juste à la fin et peu après de la guerre de 1914-1918 et qui a été très dévastatrice, car beauco...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grippe espagnole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.p‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grippe espagnole” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grippe espagnole is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁi.p‿ɛs.pa.ɲɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for grippe espagnole in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 espagnole, spelled G-R-I-P-P-E- -E-S-P-A-G-N-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une grippe humaine épidémique mondiale (pandémie) particulièrement virulente et contagieuse survenue juste à la fin et peu après de la guerre de 1914-1918 et qui a été très dévastatrice, car beaucoup de personnes surtout jeunes déjà affaiblies par les restrictions de la guerre, n'étaient pas encore immunisées contre cette nouvelle souche de virus, alors que les personnes plus âgées avaient une relative immunisation, ayant été contaminées auparavant par un virus proche.
- 2Pandémie causée par cette maladie.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-I-P-P-E- -E-S-P-A-G-N-O-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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