gris
French, noun/ɡʁi/
gris is spelled G-R-I-S (4 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gris is a French masculine noun meaning “gray / grey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couleur grise, intermédiaire entre le blanc et le noir”.
What does gris mean in English?
adjective
- 1
grey / gray
- 2
colloquialdrunk, tipsy
noun
- 1
masculinegray / grey
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. De couleur grise, entre le blanc et le noir. 2. Qualifie l’intermédiaire entre deux opposés. 3. Indécis, flou. 4. Qualifie cette couleur unie de robe de chevaux.
noun: 1. Couleur grise, intermédiaire entre le blanc et le noir. 2. Intermédiaire entre deux opposés. 3. Vin gris. 4. Tabac scaferlati qui est vendu emballé dans un papier gris.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gris
- grise feminine
- grises feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gris?
- /ɡʁi/
- \ɡʁi\
- [dy ɡʁi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gris
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gris in French?
gris appears 22 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).