groupe
\ɡʁup\
The verdict
“groupe” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #233 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #233
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble de personnes, d’animaux.
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 | groupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁup\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “groupe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for groupe is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁup\. Corpus data places it at rank #233 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for groupe, with forms such as "ggroupe", "gorupe", and "gropue". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grue", "grove", "groups", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is groupe, spelled G-R-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de personnes, d’animaux.
- 2Ensemble de musiciens, de chanteurs, faisant habituellement des spectacles ensemble.
- 3Ensemble plus ou moins considérable des députés, sénateurs, etc., d’une même opinion.
- 4Plusieurs objets qui forment un tout ou peuvent être classés ensemble.
- 5Assemblage d’objets rapprochés ou unis que l’œil embrasse à la fois.
- 6Ensemble de composants, d’appareils servant comme un tout.
- 7Structure algébrique abstraite munie de certaines propriétés mathématiques.
- 8Ensemble de verbes qui se conjuguent de manière similaire. En français, on distingue les verbes des premier, deuxième et troisième groupes.
- 9Syntagme.
- 10Ensemble de sociétés qui sont reliées entre elles au sein d’une maison mère.
- 11Groupe du tableau périodique, correspondant à une des 18 colonnes verticales du tableau périodique.
- 12Sous-chaîne d’une expression rationnelle placée entre parenthèses, dont les éléments sont traités en bloc, comme un tout.
- 13Ensemble des secteurs constituant une zone logique sur un disque.
- 14Course de groupe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggroupe,gorupe,gropue,grouep,grouppe,grroupe,gruope,rgoupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of groupe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “groupe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-U-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁup\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “grue” - see the side-by-side comparison. groupe vs grue
- 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.