grace

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The English entry for grace is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡɹeɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,680 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for grace, with forms such as "garce", "ggrace", and "gracce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GRE", "gray", "gram", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is grace, spelled G-R-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.