gruau

\ɡʁy.o\

/\ɡʁy.o\/ noun

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The verdict

“gruau” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,928. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,928
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grain mondé et moulu grossièrement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gruau · gruau · French

gruau · rank #47,928 · 6 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,928
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH grossissent

Nearest frequency peer: grossissent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gruau »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gruau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gruau vs grue
60% similar
gruau vs guay
60% similar
gruau vs grues
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gruau
PropertyValue
Headwordgruau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁy.o\
Letters5
Frequency rank#47,928
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gruau »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gruause place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « grossissent » (#47,927), « géorgiens » (#47,929), « groom » (#47,926). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gruau » est au #47,928. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around gruau (IPA \ɡʁy.o\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,928 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gruau, with forms such as "ggruau", "grauu", and "grruau". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "grue", "guay", "grues", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gruau, spelled G-R-U-A-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grain mondé et moulu grossièrement.
  2. 2
    Bouillie de ce grain.
  3. 3
    Eau ou sa tisane de ce grain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gruau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Gruau d’avoine, d’orge, de froment. Farine de gruau.
  2. à côté d’un beurre éblouissant de fraîcheur, le gros pain bis du villageois et le pain de gruau doré, cher à l’estomac blasé de l’habitant des villes

This word in other languages

meal(English)Grütze(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ggruau
  • grauu
  • grruau
  • gruua
  • gurau
  • rguau

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gruau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ggruau1grauu2grruau1gruua2gurau2rguau2
Edit distance from "gruau"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gruau"?
"gruau" is spelled G-R-U-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁy.o\.
What does "gruau" mean?
As a noun, "gruau" means: Grain mondé et moulu grossièrement.
What words are commonly confused with "gruau"?
"gruau" is commonly confused with "grue", "guay", "grues". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gruau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gruau" is \ɡʁy.o\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gruau" come from?
"gruau" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gruau", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

groom#47,926Houda#47,943impec#47,952foies#47,901

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Halley6 variantsgods6 variantsfiotte6 variantsFink6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list