s’agripper
\s‿a.ɡʁi.pe\
The verdict
“s’agripper” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - Se saisir avidement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-agripper · s’agripper · French
s’agripper · 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 "S" 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 | s’agripper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿a.ɡʁi.pe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’agripper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’agripper is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿a.ɡʁi.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se saisir avidement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for s’agripper, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is s’agripper, spelled S-’-A-G-R-I-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se saisir avidement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how s’agripper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— La perche, une perche, reprit Grangibus qui ne perdait plus le nord.[…] Il s’y agrippa désespérément et les cinq sauveteurs, se cramponnant comme ils pouvaient à l’autre bout, amenèrent enfin, à plat ventre, au rivage le malheureux pêcheur de grenouilles.
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.