grognent
\ɡʁɔɲ\
The verdict
“grognent” is uncommon French (frequency #96,983 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,983
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de grogner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grognent · grognent · French
grognent · rank #96,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,983
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grisbi
Nearest frequency peer: grisbi (-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 « grognent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gravant
gravant
3,024 corpus weight
- GRH
GRH
3,023 corpus weight
- grimoires
grimoires
3,021 corpus weight
- grisbi
grisbi
3,019 corpus weight
- grognent
grognent
3,018 corpus weight
- Grosbois
Grosbois
3,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grognent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grognent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grognent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grognent is uncommon French at frequency #96,983 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁɔɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
grognent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grognent, spelled G-R-O-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de grogner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de grogner.
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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