grouillant
The verdict
“grouillant” is uncommon French (frequency #73,205 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,205
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui grouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grouillant · grouillant · French
grouillant · rank #73,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,205
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH groin
Nearest frequency peer: groin (-2 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 « grouillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grivois
grivois
26,800 corpus weight
- grognant
grognant
26,799 corpus weight
- groin
groin
26,798 corpus weight
- grouillant
grouillant
26,796 corpus weight
- Grévy
Grévy
26,794 corpus weight
- guadeloupée…
guadeloupéens
26,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grouillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grouillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grouillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grouillant is uncommon French at frequency #73,205 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for grouillant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grouillant, spelled G-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui grouille.
- 2Où grouille une foule de choses ou de gens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grouillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et bientôt, au milieu d’une foule grouillante où toutes les races se mêlent, assailli par une nuée de gamins loqueteux qui parlent « parisien », l’on débarque sur ce coin de terre chérifienne […].
À une très grande hauteur, on eût dit une carte en relief concave. Bert apercevait le sol, sombre et grouillant, entrecoupé partout par des canaux brillants ; […].
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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