graceful
grace·ful/ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/adjective
graceful is spelled G-R-A-C-E-F-U-L, 2 syllables: grace·ful. The wrong spelling people search most is gracefull: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Graceful is an adjective meaning “Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion”.
How many letters and syllables are in graceful?
| Letters | 8: G-R-A-C-E-F-U-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: grace·ful |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gracefull, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell graceful?
Graceful is spelled G-R-A-C-E-F-U-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for graceful in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is graceful?
Graceful appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce graceful?
- US /ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/
Graceful has 2 syllables, split grace·ful in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-graceful.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of graceful
- more graceful comparative
- most graceful superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does graceful mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
She is a graceful dancer.
- 2
Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
- 3
Gradual and non-disruptive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Graceful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense showing grace:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gracieux |
| German | anmutig, ansprechend, elegant, graziös, reizend, zierlich |
| Portuguese | gracioso |
| Spanish | grácil, gracioso, graciado, agraciado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does graceful come from?
From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).