grob
\ɡroːp\
The verdict
“grob” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourru, rude, brutal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grob · grob · French
grob · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡroːp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
grob is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡroːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
grob doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grob, spelled G-R-O-B.
Definition
- 1Bourru, rude, brutal.
- 2Grossier, grave.
- 3Sommaire, approximatif.
- 4Grossier, bourru, rude (caractérise un matérial).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Warum ist Detlef immer so grob zu seiner Freundin?
Der jakutische Regierungschef Ajsen Nikolajew hat nun als erstes Regionsoberhaupt grobe Fehler bei der Mobilmachung zugegeben. Es seien auch kinderreiche Väter und Männer völlig ohne militärische Erfahrung eingezogen worden, (...)
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.