ours gris

/\uʁs ɡʁi\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

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ours gris is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sous-espèce d’ours brun (Ursus arctos) dont le nom scientifique est Ursus arctos horribilis. Pronounced \uʁs ɡʁi\.

Key facts for ours gris
PropertyValue
Headwordours gris
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\uʁs ɡʁi\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ours gris is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ours gris is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \uʁs ɡʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sous-espèce d’ours brun (Ursus arctos) dont le nom scientifique est Ursus arctos horribilis.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ours gris in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 ours gris, spelled O-U-R-S- -G-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sous-espèce d’ours brun (Ursus arctos) dont le nom scientifique est Ursus arctos horribilis.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ours gris"?
"ours gris" is spelled O-U-R-S- -G-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \uʁs ɡʁi\.
What does "ours gris" mean?
As a noun, "ours gris" means: Sous-espèce d’ours brun (Ursus arctos) dont le nom scientifique est Ursus arctos horribilis.
How do you pronounce "ours gris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ours gris" is \uʁs ɡʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ours gris" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.