Grosseto
\ɡʁɔ.sɛ.tɔ\
The verdict
“Grosseto” is uncommon French (frequency #95,970 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,970
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la région de Toscane en Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grosseto · Grosseto · French
Grosseto · rank #95,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,970
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH griotte
Nearest frequency peer: griotte (-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 « Grosseto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grandissaie…
grandissaient
4,035 corpus weight
- grape
grape
4,034 corpus weight
- griotte
griotte
4,032 corpus weight
- Grosseto
Grosseto
4,031 corpus weight
- gust
gust
4,028 corpus weight
- gémissent
gémissent
4,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Grosseto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grosseto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔ.sɛ.tɔ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Grosseto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Grosseto is uncommon French at frequency #95,970 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡʁɔ.sɛ.tɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Grosseto has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Grosseto, spelled G-R-O-S-S-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la région de Toscane en Italie.
- 2Province autour de cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Grosseto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna, maire de Grosseto, en Italie, soutenu par la coalition ultraconservatrice au pouvoir va donner à deux rues de sa commune le nom d’un responsable fasciste et celui d’un dirigeant communiste au nom de la « pacification nationale ».
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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