zu Grunde liegende
\t͡su ˈɡʁʊndə ˈliːɡn̩də\
The verdict
“zu Grunde liegende” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Accusatif féminin singulier de la déclinaison faible de zu Grunde liegend.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zu Grunde liegende |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \t͡su ˈɡʁʊndə ˈliːɡn̩də\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zu Grunde liegende” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zu Grunde liegende is 18 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \t͡su ˈɡʁʊndə ˈliːɡn̩də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for zu Grunde liegende 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 zu Grunde liegende, spelled Z-U- -G-R-U-N-D-E- -L-I-E-G-E-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Accusatif féminin singulier de la déclinaison faible de zu Grunde liegend.
- 2Accusatif féminin singulier de la déclinaison forte de zu Grunde liegend.
- 3Accusatif féminin singulier de la déclinaison mixte de zu Grunde liegend.
- 4Accusatif neutre singulier de la déclinaison faible de zu Grunde liegend.
- 5Accusatif pluriel (à tous les genres) de la déclinaison forte de zu Grunde liegend.
- 6Nominatif féminin singulier de la déclinaison forte de zu Grunde liegend.
- 7Nominatif féminin singulier de la déclinaison mixte de zu Grunde liegend.
- 8Nominatif pluriel (à tous les genres) de la déclinaison forte de zu Grunde liegend.
- 9Nominatif singulier (à tous les genres) de la déclinaison faible de zu Grunde liegend.
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 Z-U- -G-R-U-N-D-E- -L-I-E-G-E-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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