Grosbois
The verdict
“Grosbois” is uncommon French (frequency #96,984 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,984
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grosbois · Grosbois · French
Grosbois · rank #96,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,984
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grognent
Nearest frequency peer: grognent (-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 « Grosbois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- guk
guk
3,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Grosbois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grosbois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Grosbois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Grosbois is uncommon French at frequency #96,984 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Grosbois, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Grosbois, spelled G-R-O-S-B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Doubs.
- 2Lieu-dit de la commune française de Marolles-en-Brie, dans le Val-de-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Grosbois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et pour cause, ici nous sommes à Grosbois, un domaine totalement clos de plus de 400 hectares pas comme les autres.
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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