growing
The verdict
“growing” is uncommon French (frequency #76,634 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,634
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croissant, grandissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-growing · growing · French
growing · rank #76,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,634
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grouillent
Nearest frequency peer: grouillent (-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 « growing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grimpante
grimpante
23,370 corpus weight
- grouillent
grouillent
23,368 corpus weight
- growing
growing
23,367 corpus weight
- guimauves
guimauves
23,366 corpus weight
- guindé
guindé
23,365 corpus weight
- gués
gués
23,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « growing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | growing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « growing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
growing is uncommon French at frequency #76,634 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Croissant, grandissant.".
growing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is growing, spelled G-R-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Croissant, grandissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how growing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Europe and America thereʼs a growing feeling of hysteria
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).