pinot gris
\pi.no ɡʁi\
The verdict
“pinot gris” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cépage produisant de petites grappes de petits raisins gris donnant des grands vins, par exemple dans les appellations « alsace grands crus ». Il est issu d'une mutation spontanéé du pinot noir qui...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinot gris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.no ɡʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pinot gris” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pinot gris is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.no ɡʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pinot 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 pinot gris, spelled P-I-N-O-T- -G-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cépage produisant de petites grappes de petits raisins gris donnant des grands vins, par exemple dans les appellations « alsace grands crus ». Il est issu d'une mutation spontanéé du pinot noir qui a probablement eu lieu en Bourgogne. En 2008 il y en avait 2800 hectares en Australie, environ 2500 hectares en France, 4500 en Allemagne, 1500 en Hongrie, 6000 en Italie, 1500 en Nouvelle-Zélande, etc.
- 2Vin issu de ces cépages.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-N-O-T- -G-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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