père-grand
\pɛʁ.ɡʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“père-grand” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand-père ou celui qui joue le rôle d'un grand-père.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pere-grand · père-grand · French
père-grand · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | père-grand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ɡʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « père-grand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
père-grand is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ɡʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand-père ou celui qui joue le rôle d'un grand-père.".
père-grand doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is père-grand, spelled P-È-R-E---G-R-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Grand-père ou celui qui joue le rôle d'un grand-père.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how père-grand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Raconte, père-grand, les trois petits oiseaux…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.