grosse machine

/\ɡʁɔs ma.ʃin\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

grosse machine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Production à gros budget, dont l’ambition semble surtout commerciale. Pronounced \ɡʁɔs ma.ʃin\.

Key facts for grosse machine
PropertyValue
Headwordgrosse machine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁɔs ma.ʃin\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

grosse machine is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grosse machine is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɔs ma.ʃin\. 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: "Production à gros budget, dont l’ambition semble surtout commerciale.".

No misspelling variants are generated for grosse machine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 grosse machine, spelled G-R-O-S-S-E- -M-A-C-H-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Production à gros budget, dont l’ambition semble surtout commerciale.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grosse machine"?
"grosse machine" is spelled G-R-O-S-S-E- -M-A-C-H-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɔs ma.ʃin\.
What does "grosse machine" mean?
As a noun, "grosse machine" means: Production à gros budget, dont l’ambition semble surtout commerciale.
How do you pronounce "grosse machine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grosse machine" is \ɡʁɔs ma.ʃin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grosse machine" come from?
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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.