groux
\ɡʁu\
The verdict
“groux” is uncommon French (frequency #99,163 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,163
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouillie à l’eau faite avec de la farine de sarrasin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-groux · groux · French
groux · rank #99,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,163
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gribouiller
Nearest frequency peer: gribouiller (-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 « groux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- graveleuses
graveleuses
842 corpus weight
- gribouiller
gribouiller
839 corpus weight
- groux
groux
838 corpus weight
- grown
grown
837 corpus weight
- Guerini
Guerini
835 corpus weight
- Guilbaud
Guilbaud
834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « groux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « groux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
groux is uncommon French at frequency #99,163 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouillie à l’eau faite avec de la farine de sarrasin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for groux in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is groux, spelled G-R-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Bouillie à l’eau faite avec de la farine de sarrasin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how groux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire frire du groux.
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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