grogner
\ɡʁɔ.ɲe\
The verdict
“grogner” is uncommon French (frequency #56,628 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,628
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire entendre son cri, pour le cochon, le loup ou le chien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grogner · grogner · French
grogner · rank #56,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,628
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grrr
Nearest frequency peer: grrr (+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 « grogner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- greater
greater
43,376 corpus weight
- grenats
grenats
43,375 corpus weight
- grogner
grogner
43,373 corpus weight
- grrr
grrr
43,372 corpus weight
- Gruissan
Gruissan
43,371 corpus weight
- grumeaux
grumeaux
43,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grogner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grogner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grogner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grogner is uncommon French at frequency #56,628 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁɔ.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
grogner has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grogner, spelled G-R-O-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire entendre son cri, pour le cochon, le loup ou le chien.
- 2Murmurer, témoigner par un bruit sourd, entre ses dents, que l’on est mécontent.
- 3Dire quelque chose sur un ton qui ressemble à un grognement.
- 4Faire le même bruit qu’un grognement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grogner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] et que Gryllus, lorsque Circé, l’eut changé en cochon, fut bien plus avisé que le sage Ulysse, puisqu’il aima mieux passer sa vie à grogner tranquillement dans une étable que d’aller avec ce héros s’exposer de nouveau à tant de fâcheux hasards.
[…] et, allongé sur un lit d’ordures humides, un cochon tout rose, assoupi, grognait en rêvant.
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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