grisette
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
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grisette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement d’étoffe grise de peu de valeur. Pronounced \ɡʁi.zɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grisette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.zɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for grisette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁi.zɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grisette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 grisette, spelled G-R-I-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement d’étoffe grise de peu de valeur.
- 2La jeune fille ou jeune femme de médiocre condition qui portait ce vêtement (souvent employé avec une connotation de prostitution).
- 3Jeune ouvrière coquette et galante.
- 4Courtisane.
- 5Nom vulgaire de certaines espèces de petits oiseaux, comme la fauvette grisette.
- 6Nom vulgaire de certaines espèces de papillons de couleur grise, de la famille des Hesperiidae.
- 7Insecte hémiptère parasite de la vigne dont il mange les bourgeons floraux. Sa dénomination binomiale est : Lopus sulcatus, ou Capsodes sulcatus.
- 8Synonyme d’amanite vaginée (espèce de champignon).
- 9Sorte de maladie touchant les troncs d’arbre.
- 10Bonbon noir, spécialité de la ville de Montpellier, fabriqué avec du miel et de la réglisse.
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