grog
\ɡʁɔɡ\
The verdict
“grog” is uncommon French (frequency #63,803 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,803
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson chaude à base d’eau et de rhum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grog · grog · French
grog · rank #63,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,803
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grives
Nearest frequency peer: grives (-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 « grog »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- graveleux
graveleux
36,201 corpus weight
- griffons
griffons
36,200 corpus weight
- grives
grives
36,199 corpus weight
- grog
grog
36,198 corpus weight
- grondin
grondin
36,197 corpus weight
- groves
groves
36,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grog » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grog |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grog » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grog is uncommon French at frequency #63,803 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boisson chaude à base d’eau et de rhum.".
grog has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is grog, spelled G-R-O-G.
Definition
- 1Boisson chaude à base d’eau et de rhum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grogs brûlants ne furent pas épargnés, et le brave sergent Long put en prendre sa part.
elle posa ... un plateau devant Clémence, qui se mit à préparer posément son grog, versant l’eau chaude sur le citron, qu’elle écrasait à coups de cuiller, sucrant, mettant le rhum en consultant le carafon, pour ne pas dépasser le petit verre réglementaire.
This word in other languages
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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