groen
\ɣɾun\
The verdict
“groen” is uncommon French (frequency #68,323 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,323
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-groen · groen · French
groen · rank #68,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,323
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Guermantes
Nearest frequency peer: Guermantes (+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 « groen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gosset
gosset
31,682 corpus weight
- gouvernait
gouvernait
31,681 corpus weight
- gratifier
gratifier
31,680 corpus weight
- groen
groen
31,678 corpus weight
- Guermantes
Guermantes
31,677 corpus weight
- gâterie
gâterie
31,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « groen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɣɾun\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « groen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
groen is uncommon French at frequency #68,323 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɣɾun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vert.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for groen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is groen, spelled G-R-O-E-N.
Definition
- 1Vert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how groen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
de groene partij
hij werd groen en geel van nijd
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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