grown
\ˈɡɻɔʊn\
The verdict
“grown” is uncommon French (frequency #99,164 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,164
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé de grow.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grown · grown · French
grown · rank #99,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,164
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH groux
Nearest frequency peer: groux (-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 « grown »
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 « grown » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɡɻɔʊn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grown » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grown is uncommon French at frequency #99,164 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈɡɻɔʊn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé de grow.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for grown in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grown, spelled G-R-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Participe passé de grow.
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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