gris souris
\ɡʁi su.ʁi\
The verdict
“gris souris” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Couleur de robe de cheval rare, qui est grise, avec la crinière, la queue, le contour des oreilles et le bas des membres noirs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gris souris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁi su.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gris souris” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gris souris is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁi su.ʁi\. 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 gris souris 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 gris souris, spelled G-R-I-S- -S-O-U-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couleur de robe de cheval rare, qui est grise, avec la crinière, la queue, le contour des oreilles et le bas des membres noirs.
- 2D’une nuance de gris, mélangé de blanc. #9E9E9E
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-I-S- -S-O-U-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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