grouille
\ɡʁuj\
The verdict
“grouille” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,325
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apprentie qui fait les courses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grouille · grouille · French
grouille · rank #38,325 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,325
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guidant
Nearest frequency peer: guidant (+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 « grouille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- goulot
goulot
61,680 corpus weight
- grenat
grenat
61,678 corpus weight
- grouille
grouille
61,676 corpus weight
- guidant
guidant
61,675 corpus weight
- guident
guident
61,674 corpus weight
- gulf
gulf
61,673 corpus weight
What this shows « grouille » 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 | grouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁuj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grouille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around grouille (IPA \ɡʁuj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,325 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for grouille, with forms such as "ggrouille", "goruille", and "groiulle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Grille", "gorille", "grenouille", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is grouille, spelled G-R-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Apprentie qui fait les courses.
- 2Désordre, pagaille.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrouille
- goruille
- groiulle
- grouile
- grouilel
- groulile
- grrouille
- gruoille
- rgouille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grouille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grouille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).