grossièreté

\ɡʁo.sjɛʁ.te\

/\ɡʁo.sjɛʁ.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“grossièreté” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,484
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui manque de finesse, de délicatesse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-grossierete · grossièreté · French

grossièreté · rank #44,484 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,484
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH grignon

Nearest frequency peer: grignon (-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 « grossièreté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « grossièreté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

grossièreté vs grossière
82% similar
grossièreté vs grossières
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for grossièreté
PropertyValue
Headwordgrossièreté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁo.sjɛʁ.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#44,484
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grossièreté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.grossièretése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « grignon » (#44,483), « gradué » (#44,482), « Guzman » (#44,486). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « grossièreté » est au #44,484. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around grossièreté (IPA \ɡʁo.sjɛʁ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,484 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for grossièreté, with forms such as "ggrossièreté", "gorssièreté", and "grosisèreté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "grossière", "grossières", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grossièreté, spelled G-R-O-S-S-I-È-R-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui manque de finesse, de délicatesse.
  2. 2
    Rudesse qui vient du défaut de culture, d’éducation.
  3. 3
    Impolitesse, défaut de civilité dans ce qu’on dit ou ce qu’on fait.
  4. 4
    Manière de parler grossière.
  5. 5
    Ce qui suppose beaucoup d’ignorance, de sottise, de déraison ou de maladresse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how grossièreté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La grossièreté d’une étoffe, d’un drap, d’une toile.
  2. La grossièreté des traits.

This word in other languages

crudeness(English)grosería(Español)Grobheit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ggrossièreté
  • gorssièreté
  • grosisèreté
  • grosièreté
  • grossierete
  • grossirèeté
  • grossièerté
  • grossièretté
  • grossièreét
  • grossièrreté
  • grossièrteé
  • grossèireté
  • grrossièreté
  • grsosièreté
  • rgossièreté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grossièreté - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ggrossièreté1gorssièreté2grosisèreté2grosièreté1grossierete2grossirèeté2grossièerté2grossièretté1
Edit distance from "grossièreté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grossièreté"?
"grossièreté" is spelled G-R-O-S-S-I-È-R-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁo.sjɛʁ.te\.
What does "grossièreté" mean?
As a noun, "grossièreté" means: Caractère de ce qui manque de finesse, de délicatesse.
What words are commonly confused with "grossièreté"?
"grossièreté" is commonly confused with "grossière", "grossières". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grossièreté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grossièreté" is \ɡʁo.sjɛʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grossièreté" come from?
"grossièreté" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grossièreté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

incohérente#44,501indonésiens#44,507jalousement#44,527désengorger#44,437

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

infligeant15 variantsinspirante15 variantsdigestives15 variantsmacédonien15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list