grizzli

/\ɡʁiz.li\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,836

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

grizzli is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sous-espèce de l’ours brun (Ursus arctos horribilis) vivant dans le nord-est des États-Unis et du Canada. Pronounced \ɡʁiz.li\.

Key facts for grizzli
PropertyValue
Headwordgrizzli
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁiz.li\
Letters7
Frequency rank#93,836
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grizzli in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grizzli is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁiz.li\. Corpus data places it at rank #93,836 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sous-espèce de l’ours brun (Ursus arctos horribilis) vivant dans le nord-est des États-Unis et du Canada.".

No misspelling variants are generated for grizzli 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 grizzli, spelled G-R-I-Z-Z-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sous-espèce de l’ours brun (Ursus arctos horribilis) vivant dans le nord-est des États-Unis et du Canada.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #93,836 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grizzli"?
"grizzli" is spelled G-R-I-Z-Z-L-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁiz.li\.
What does "grizzli" mean?
As a noun, "grizzli" means: Sous-espèce de l’ours brun (Ursus arctos horribilis) vivant dans le nord-est des États-Unis et du Canada.
How do you pronounce "grizzli"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grizzli" is \ɡʁiz.li\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grizzli" come from?
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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.