groseille
\ɡʁo.zɛj\
The verdict
“groseille” is an uncommon French word, ranked #65,979 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,979
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit fruit à grappes comestible, à saveur acidulée, de couleur rouge ou blanche , souvent utilisé en cuisine pour faire des gelées et des confitures, et produit par le groseillier ou groseillier à...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groseille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁo.zɛj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groseille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for groseille is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁo.zɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #65,979 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for groseille in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is groseille, spelled G-R-O-S-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit fruit à grappes comestible, à saveur acidulée, de couleur rouge ou blanche , souvent utilisé en cuisine pour faire des gelées et des confitures, et produit par le groseillier ou groseillier à grappes (Ribes rubrum).
- 2Groseille à maquereau.
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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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Using “groseille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-S-E-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁo.zɛj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.