groseillier à maquereau
\ɡʁo.zɛ.je a ma.kʁo\
The verdict
“groseillier à maquereau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de Ribes uva-crispa arbuste épineux de la famille des Grossulariacées, originaire du nord de l’Afrique, d’Europe et du nord-ouest de l’Asie et produisant les groseilles à maquereau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groseillier à maquereau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁo.zɛ.je a ma.kʁo\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groseillier à maquereau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for groseillier à maquereau is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁo.zɛ.je a ma.kʁo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom vernaculaire de Ribes uva-crispa arbuste épineux de la famille des Grossulariacées, originaire du nord de l’Afrique, d’Europe et du nord-ouest de l’Asie et produisant les groseilles à maquereau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for groseillier à maquereau, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is groseillier à maquereau, spelled G-R-O-S-E-I-L-L-I-E-R- -À- -M-A-Q-U-E-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Ribes uva-crispa arbuste épineux de la famille des Grossulariacées, originaire du nord de l’Afrique, d’Europe et du nord-ouest de l’Asie et produisant les groseilles 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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-S-E-I-L-L-I-E-R- -À- -M-A-Q-U-E-R-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.