grotte
\ɡʁɔt\
The verdict
“grotte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,329
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cavité plus ou moins profonde, dans un rocher ou dans une montagne, naturelle ou faite de main d’homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grotte · grotte · French
grotte · rank #7,329 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,329
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gouvernance
Nearest frequency peer: gouvernance (-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 « grotte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fuck
fuck
92,675 corpus weight
- gaza
gaza
92,674 corpus weight
- gouvernance
gouvernance
92,673 corpus weight
- grotte
grotte
92,672 corpus weight
- hard
hard
92,671 corpus weight
- hubert
hubert
92,670 corpus weight
What this shows « grotte » 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 | grotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grotte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around grotte (IPA \ɡʁɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,329 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cavité plus ou moins profonde, dans un rocher ou dans une montagne, naturelle ou faite de main d’homme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for grotte, with forms such as "ggrotte", "gortte", and "grote". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "grove", "groupe", "growth", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is grotte, spelled G-R-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Cavité plus ou moins profonde, dans un rocher ou dans une montagne, naturelle ou faite de main d’homme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce que, dans l’obscurité, ils avaient pris pour une simple excavation, était une grotte naturelle, comme on en rencontre tant dans ces contrées.
A peu de distance de Dinant, en Belgique, dans la vallée de la Lesse, il existe un assez grand nombre de ces grottes qui ont dû servir d’habitation ou de refuge à nos ancêtres ; […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrotte
- gortte
- grote
- grotet
- grrotte
- grtote
- rgotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grotte - 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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).