grossir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,790
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
grossir is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre gros, plus ample, plus volumineux. Pronounced \ɡʁɔ.siʁ\. Often confused with grosso and grossit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grossir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔ.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grossir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɔ.siʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,790 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for grossir, with forms such as "ggrossir", "gorssir", and "grosir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "grosso", "grossit", "grossis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 grossir, spelled G-R-O-S-S-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre gros, plus ample, plus volumineux.
- 2Faire paraître plus gros.
- 3Exagérer.
- 4Devenir gros.
- 5Prendre du poids.
- 6Forcir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrossir,gorssir,grosir,grosisr,grossirr,grossri,grrossir,grsosir,rgossir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grossir
Misspelling Variants of "grossir"
Frequency rank: #12,790 in French
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