grosseur
\ɡʁɔ.sœʁ\
The verdict
“grosseur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,372
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est gros.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grosseur · grosseur · French
grosseur · rank #29,372 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,372
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH griffith
Nearest frequency peer: griffith (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « grosseur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gosselin
Gosselin
70,632 corpus weight
- gouter
gouter
70,631 corpus weight
- griffith
griffith
70,630 corpus weight
- grosseur
grosseur
70,629 corpus weight
- grossiers
grossiers
70,628 corpus weight
- guns
guns
70,627 corpus weight
What this shows « grosseur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grosseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grosseur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around grosseur (IPA \ɡʁɔ.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,372 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for grosseur, with forms such as "ggrosseur", "gorsseur", and "grosesur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "grossir", "grossier", "grosse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 grosseur, spelled G-R-O-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est gros.
- 2Volume d’un corps.
- 3Enflure.
- 4Grossièreté, manque de finesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grosseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le matin de ce jour-là, Reine, jugeant de son crime par la grosseur de la somme reçue, essaya d'avertir sa maîtresse.
Il entra dans le bois, d’où il ressortit un peu après, écorçant avec son couteau une trique de grosseur assez respectable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrosseur
- gorsseur
- grosesur
- groseur
- grosseru
- grosseurr
- grossuer
- grrosseur
- grsoseur
- rgosseur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grosseur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).