grondait
\ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“grondait” is uncommon French (frequency #90,785 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,785
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gronder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grondait · grondait · French
grondait · rank #90,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,785
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grisonnant
Nearest frequency peer: grisonnant (-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 « grondait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grandiloque…
grandiloquence
9,221 corpus weight
- graça
graça
9,220 corpus weight
- grigri
grigri
9,219 corpus weight
- grisonnant
grisonnant
9,217 corpus weight
- grondait
grondait
9,216 corpus weight
- grèvent
grèvent
9,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grondait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grondait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grondait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grondait is uncommon French at frequency #90,785 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁɔ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gronder.".
Zero misspellings are on record for grondait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grondait, spelled G-R-O-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gronder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grondait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il aidait beaucoup plus les enfants à faire des petits bateaux et des cocottes avec leurs abécédaires qu’il ne leur apprenait à lire ; il les grondait si curieusement, quand ils avaient chippé des fruits, que ses semonces pouvaient passer pour des leçons sur la manière d’escalader les murs.
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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