grive
\ɡʁiv\
The verdict
“grive” is uncommon French (frequency #62,323 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,323
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petit oiseau passereau dont le plumage est mêlé de blanc et de brun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grive · grive · French
grive · rank #62,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,323
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grillo
Nearest frequency peer: grillo (-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 « grive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- griffures
griffures
37,681 corpus weight
- grignotage
grignotage
37,680 corpus weight
- grillo
grillo
37,679 corpus weight
- grive
grive
37,678 corpus weight
- Guadalupe
Guadalupe
37,677 corpus weight
- guarani
guarani
37,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁiv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grive is uncommon French at frequency #62,323 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grive, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grive, spelled G-R-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau dont le plumage est mêlé de blanc et de brun.
- 2La guerre, l'armée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’abondance des grives est telle alors sur la côte méridionale de la Baltique, que, selon le calcul de M. Klein, la seule ville de Dantzick en consomme chaque année quatre-vingt-dix mille paires.
Pendant la convalescence qui suivit une longue maladie, le médecin ordonna à Pompée de manger une grive ; mais ce volatile était alors fort rare.
Synonyms
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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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