grisette
\ɡʁi.zɛt\
The verdict
“grisette” 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
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vêtement d’étoffe grise de peu de valeur.
| 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) |
Where “grisette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grisette is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grisette, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grisette, spelled G-R-I-S-E-T-T-E.
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.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “grisette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-I-S-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.