grosso merdo
\ɡʁo.so mɛʁ.do\
The verdict
“grosso merdo” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grosso modo, en gros, dans les grandes lignes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grosso-merdo · grosso merdo · French
grosso merdo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grosso merdo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɡʁo.so mɛʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
grosso merdo is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɡʁo.so mɛʁ.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grosso modo, en gros, dans les grandes lignes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grosso merdo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 grosso merdo, spelled G-R-O-S-S-O- -M-E-R-D-O.
Definition
- 1Grosso modo, en gros, dans les grandes lignes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grosso merdo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fin gourmet, grosso merdo il a la quarantaine poivre et sel, la cinquantaine triomphante ou la décrépitude de la soixantaine…
Alors, on fait le calcul, grosso merdo, au nombre de cuvettes sales : aujourd’hui, ça fait bien 10 vessies qui se sont soulagées chez Jeanine pendant ma consultation.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.