groin

\ɡʁwɛ̃\

/\ɡʁwɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“groin” is uncommon French (frequency #73,203 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,203
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Museau du cochon, du sanglier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-groin · groin · French

groin · rank #73,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,203
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH grognant

Nearest frequency peer: grognant (-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 « groin »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « groin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for groin
PropertyValue
Headwordgroin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁwɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#73,203
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « groin » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.grointombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « grognant » (#73,202), « grivois » (#73,201), « grouillant » (#73,205). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « groin » est au #73,203. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

groin is uncommon French at frequency #73,203 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for groin, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is groin, spelled G-R-O-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Museau du cochon, du sanglier.
  2. 2
    Museau d’autre animal, qui rappelle par sa forme celui des suidés.
  3. 3
    Appendice, masque qui, sur un visage, rappelle le groin d’un porc.
  4. 4
    Trogne, visage laid, bestial.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how groin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des porcs assoupis enfonçaient en terre leur groins.
  2. Avec leur groin, ils retournent la terre, mangent ce qu’ils trouvent dans le sol.

This word in other languages

snout(English)jeta(Español)Rüssel(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "groin"?
"groin" is spelled G-R-O-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁwɛ̃\.
What does "groin" mean?
As a noun, "groin" means: Museau du cochon, du sanglier.
How do you pronounce "groin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "groin" is \ɡʁwɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "groin" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "groin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Grévy#73,207gondi#73,192Girac#73,188Havel#73,224

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list