Which to use
“grip” and “grippe” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,198
- “grip” frequency rank
- #7,836
- “grippe” frequency rank
- 54034
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | grip | grippe |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mâchoires métalliques destinées à saisir les câbles de traction des funiculaires et tramways guidés par câble. | Prise, emprise. |
Same sound, different letters: grip vs grippe
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. grip runs 4 letters (CCVC) against grippe's 6 (CCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - grip and grippe
This is the hard kind. grip and grippe are pronounced identically (\ɡʁip\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “grip” sits inside “grippe”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54034, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
grip is recorded at frequency rank #46,198, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡʁip\. grippe is at rank #7,836, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡʁip\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 54034, this pair ranks #136,751 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of grip vs grippe
Shared letters: gipr. Private to "grip": -. Private to "grippe": e.
"grip" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "grippe" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "grip" and "grippe" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "grip" or "grippe" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "grip" / "grippe". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "grip" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "grippe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #136,751 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "grip" and "grippe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grip vs grow". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #136,751 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.