grouiller
\ɡʁu.je\
The verdict
“grouiller” is uncommon French (frequency #91,750 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,750
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remuer en masse confuse, abonder, pulluler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grouiller · grouiller · French
grouiller · rank #91,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,750
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grutier
Nearest frequency peer: grutier (+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 « grouiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- granulation
granulation
8,256 corpus weight
- Graulhet
Graulhet
8,254 corpus weight
- greed
greed
8,253 corpus weight
- grouiller
grouiller
8,251 corpus weight
- grutier
grutier
8,250 corpus weight
- Guglielmo
Guglielmo
8,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grouiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grouiller is uncommon French at frequency #91,750 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for grouiller in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grouiller, spelled G-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remuer en masse confuse, abonder, pulluler.
- 2Être rempli d’une masse grouillante, en parlant d’une chose ou d’un lieu.
- 3ou Bouger, remuer.
- 4Faire du bruit, gargouiller, en parlant des intestins, de l’abdomen.
- 5ou Se dépêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui, autrefois, grouillait en bas, resplendit en haut aujourd’hui. Le domestique a jeté sa livrée à la tête de son maître et se pavane dans ses habits. Non seulement il est devenu son égal, mais il le domine.
Sale et productif comme le commerce, ce passage, toujours plein d’allants et de venants, de charrettes, de haquets, est d’un aspect repoussant, et la population qui y grouille est en harmonie avec les choses et les lieux.
This word in other languages
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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