grumeaux
\ɡʁy.mo\
The verdict
“grumeaux” is uncommon French (frequency #56,631 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,631
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de grumeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grumeaux · grumeaux · French
grumeaux · rank #56,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,631
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gruissan
Nearest frequency peer: Gruissan (-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 « grumeaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grogner
grogner
43,373 corpus weight
- grrr
grrr
43,372 corpus weight
- Gruissan
Gruissan
43,371 corpus weight
- grumeaux
grumeaux
43,370 corpus weight
- Guedj
Guedj
43,369 corpus weight
- Gueye
Gueye
43,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grumeaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grumeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁy.mo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grumeaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grumeaux is uncommon French at frequency #56,631 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁy.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de grumeau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grumeaux, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grumeaux, spelled G-R-U-M-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de grumeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grumeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tamisez la farine si elle a des grumeaux.
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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