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grizzly

French, noun/ɡʁiz.li/

grizzly is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of grizzli” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de grizzli”.

What does grizzly mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealternative spelling of grizzli

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de grizzli.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of grizzly

  • grizzlys plural
  • grizzlies plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce grizzly?

  • /ɡʁiz.li/
  • \ɡʁiz.li\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is grizzly in French?

grizzly appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).