grisonnant
\ɡʁi.zɔ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“grisonnant” is uncommon French (frequency #90,784 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,784
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui grisonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grisonnant · grisonnant · French
grisonnant · rank #90,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,784
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grondait
Nearest frequency peer: grondait (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grisonnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grandiloque…
grandiloquence
9,221 corpus weight
- graça
graça
9,220 corpus weight
- grigri
grigri
9,219 corpus weight
- grisonnant
grisonnant
9,217 corpus weight
- grondait
grondait
9,216 corpus weight
- grèvent
grèvent
9,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grisonnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grisonnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁi.zɔ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grisonnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grisonnant is uncommon French at frequency #90,784 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁi.zɔ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui grisonne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grisonnant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grisonnant, spelled G-R-I-S-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui grisonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grisonnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le grand maître était un homme d’un âge avancé, comme le prouvaient sa longue barbe blanche et ses sourcils déjà grisonnants.
…; des cheveux grisonnants couvraient à peine son crâne jaune et le faisaient vieux avant le temps ; ….
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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