grossir
French, verb/ɡʁo.siʁ/
grossir is spelled G-R-O-S-S-I-R (7 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grossir is a French verb meaning “to increase, to make larger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre gros, plus ample, plus volumineux”.
What does grossir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to increase, to make larger
- 2
to plump up
- 3
to put on weight, to gain weight; to get fat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre gros, plus ample, plus volumineux. 2. Faire paraître plus gros. 3. Exagérer. 4. Devenir gros.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grossir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grossissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grossi participle past
- grossis first-person indicative present
- grossit indicative present singular
- grossissons first-person indicative plural
- grossissez indicative plural present
- grossissent indicative plural present
- grossissais first-person imperfect indicative
- grossissait imperfect indicative singular
- grossissions first-person imperfect indicative
- grossissiez imperfect indicative plural
- grossissaient imperfect indicative plural
- grossîmes first-person historic indicative
- grossîtes historic indicative past
- grossirent historic indicative past
- grossirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grossir?
- /ɡʁo.siʁ/
- \ɡʁɔ.siʁ\
- [ɡʁɔ.siʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grossir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grossir in French?
grossir appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).