graben
"graben" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“graben” is uncommon English (frequency #79,550 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,550
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.
Corpus desk
Index EN-graben · graben · English
graben · rank #79,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,550
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gotchu
Nearest frequency peer: gotchu (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “graben”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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20,460 corpus weight
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20,453 corpus weight
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20,451 corpus weight
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20,444 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “graben” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graben |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “graben” in English
Rare enough to double-check
graben is uncommon English at frequency #79,550 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.".
graben has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Graben (“ditch”), from the verb graben (“to dig”). The correct English form is graben, spelled G-R-A-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1959, Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson, Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas, U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 312, page 49, The magnitude and shape of the large grabens strongly suggest that, when they formed, material much more mobile than ordinary rocks was present at a depth no greater than a few miles.
This system includes the Syrian and Lebanese grabens; the grabens of the Dead Sea, Wadi al Arabah, Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, Red Sea, and Gulf of Aden; and the Ethiopian graben.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Graben (“ditch”), from the verb graben (“to dig”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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