groseille
\ɡʁo.zɛj\
The verdict
“groseille” is uncommon French (frequency #65,979 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,979
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-groseille · groseille · French
groseille · rank #65,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,979
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grimaçant
Nearest frequency peer: grimaçant (-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 « groseille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gouine
gouine
34,025 corpus weight
- grimaçant
grimaçant
34,023 corpus weight
- groseille
groseille
34,022 corpus weight
- guérisse
guérisse
34,021 corpus weight
- Haag
Haag
34,020 corpus weight
- haim
haim
34,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « groseille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « groseille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
groseille is uncommon French at frequency #65,979 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁo.zɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how groseille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis je presserai la groseille contre le voile du palais, et je ne serai défigurée ni par des convulsions, ni par une posture ridicule.
Le sucre de raisin que l’on appelle aussi glucose, se rencontre dans les fruits sucrés qui présentent en même temps une saveur acide, comme les raisins, les groseilles, etc.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).