gros
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#315
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gros is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a beaucoup de circonférence ou de volume. Pronounced \ɡʁo\. It ranks #315 in French word frequency. Often confused with Gs and gus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gros |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɡʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gros is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #315 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gros, with forms such as "ggros", "gors", and "grros". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gs", "gus", "grue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gros, spelled G-R-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a beaucoup de circonférence ou de volume.
- 2En parlant d'une personne, qui fait de l'embonpoint.
- 3Grossi, enflé.
- 4Se dit, sans songer à la grosseur absolue, pour exprimer la grosseur relative.
- 5Qui surpasse en étendue, en volume, en valeur, en importance, la plupart des choses de même genre.
- 6Qui est supérieur en nombre.
- 7En parlant d'une quantité, qui dépasse ou semble dépasser légèrement la valeur exprimée.
- 8Intense.
- 9Qui a de la gravité ; qui a des suites, des conséquences.
- 10Épais, brut
- 11Grossier, vulgaire.
- 12Sans finesse.
- 13En parlant de personnes, riche, opulente ou qui opère en grand.
- 14Qui présage un évènement redouté.
- 15(Généralement au féminin) Désigne les femmes enceintes et parfois les animaux femelles gravides.
- 16Simple à comprendre.
- 17Soulevé en vagues fortes, en parlant de la mer.
- 18Forme d'adresse amicale, variante orthographique de gro, voir aussi gros.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggros,gors,grros,grso,rgos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gros
Misspelling Variants of "gros"
Frequency rank: #315 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "gros"?
What does "gros" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "gros"?
How do you pronounce "gros"?
What language does "gros" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: