grue
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,633
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gros oiseau voyageur, de l’ordre des Échassiers, qui vole fort haut et par bandes. Pronounced \ɡʁy\. Often confused with guy and gun.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grue is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁy\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,633 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for grue, with forms such as "ggrue", "greu", and "grrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "gun", "gus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grue, spelled G-R-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gros oiseau voyageur, de l’ordre des Échassiers, qui vole fort haut et par bandes.
- 2Machine de levage et de manutention réservé aux lourdes charges sur des chantiers.
- 3Prostituée, femme dissolue.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée de profil, ailes repliées, debout sur sa patte senestre, la dextre étant repliée et saisissant un globe ou une pierre sphérique appelée vigilance. À rapprocher de héron.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrue,greu,grrue,gure,rgue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grue
Misspelling Variants of "grue"
Frequency rank: #16,633 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: