grotte
\ɡʁɔt\
The verdict
“grotte” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,329 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,329
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cavité plus ou moins profonde, dans un rocher ou dans une montagne, naturelle ou faite de main d’homme.
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) |
Where “grotte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grotte is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,329 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “grotte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɔt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “grove” - see the side-by-side comparison. grotte vs grove
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.