grou
\ɡʁu\
The verdict
“grou” is uncommon French (frequency #71,560 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,560
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre argileuse mêlée de pierre. Ces terres portaient souvent des vignobles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grou · grou · French
grou · rank #71,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,560
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grossièretés
Nearest frequency peer: grossièretés (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- griots
griots
28,443 corpus weight
- grossièretés
grossièretés
28,442 corpus weight
- grou
grou
28,441 corpus weight
- guelfes
guelfes
28,440 corpus weight
- Guernica
Guernica
28,439 corpus weight
- gueuse
gueuse
28,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grou is uncommon French at frequency #71,560 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grou, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grou, spelled G-R-O-U.
Definition
- 1Terre argileuse mêlée de pierre. Ces terres portaient souvent des vignobles.
- 2Gruet, grouette, gravier.
- 3Gueurouette, terre forte et riche (à base argileuse).
Synonyms
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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