grub
\ɡʁœb\
The verdict
“grub” is uncommon French (frequency #83,920 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,920
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Programme de multiboot libre, qui permet de choisir au démarrage de son ordinateur entre plusieurs systèmes d’exploitation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grub · grub · French
grub · rank #83,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,920
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grondements
Nearest frequency peer: grondements (-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 « grub »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- graphologie
graphologie
16,084 corpus weight
- Gregori
Gregori
16,083 corpus weight
- grondements
grondements
16,082 corpus weight
- grub
grub
16,081 corpus weight
- Guimond
Guimond
16,080 corpus weight
- gôche
gôche
16,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grub » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁœb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grub » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grub is uncommon French at frequency #83,920 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁœb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Programme de multiboot libre, qui permet de choisir au démarrage de son ordinateur entre plusieurs systèmes d’exploitation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grub, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grub, spelled G-R-U-B.
Definition
- 1Programme de multiboot libre, qui permet de choisir au démarrage de son ordinateur entre plusieurs systèmes d’exploitation.
This word in other languages
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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