groupe

/\ɡʁup\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#233

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

groupe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de personnes, d’animaux. Pronounced \ɡʁup\. It ranks #233 in French word frequency. Often confused with grue and grove.

Key facts for groupe
PropertyValue
Headwordgroupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁup\
Letters6
Frequency rank#233
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of groupe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for groupe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for groupe, with forms such as "ggroupe", "gorupe", and "gropue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is groupe, spelled G-R-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble de personnes, d’animaux.
  2. 2
    Ensemble de musiciens, de chanteurs, faisant habituellement des spectacles ensemble.
  3. 3
    Ensemble plus ou moins considérable des députés, sénateurs, etc., d’une même opinion.
  4. 4
    Plusieurs objets qui forment un tout ou peuvent être classés ensemble.
  5. 5
    Assemblage d’objets rapprochés ou unis que l’œil embrasse à la fois.
  6. 6
    Ensemble de composants, d’appareils servant comme un tout.
  7. 7
    Structure algébrique abstraite munie de certaines propriétés mathématiques.
  8. 8
    Ensemble de verbes qui se conjuguent de manière similaire. En français, on distingue les verbes des premier, deuxième et troisième groupes.
  9. 9
    Syntagme.
  10. 10
    Ensemble de sociétés qui sont reliées entre elles au sein d’une maison mère.
  11. 11
    Groupe du tableau périodique, correspondant à une des 18 colonnes verticales du tableau périodique.
  12. 12
    Sous-chaîne d’une expression rationnelle placée entre parenthèses, dont les éléments sont traités en bloc, comme un tout.
  13. 13
    Ensemble des secteurs constituant une zone logique sur un disque.
  14. 14
    Course de groupe.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggroupe,gorupe,gropue,grouep,grouppe,grroupe,gruope,rgoupe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for groupe

Misspelling Variants of "groupe"

ggroupe7gorupe6gropue6grouep6grouppe7grroupe7gruope6rgoupe6
Misspelling Variants of "groupe"

Frequency rank: #233 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "groupe"?
"groupe" is spelled G-R-O-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁup\.
What does "groupe" mean?
As a noun, "groupe" means: Ensemble de personnes, d’animaux.
What words are commonly confused with "groupe"?
"groupe" is commonly confused with "grue", "grove", "groups". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "groupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "groupe" is \ɡʁup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "groupe" come from?
"groupe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.