# graphic

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈɡɹæfɪk/ · frequency rank #4,858

## Definitions
1. Drawn, pictorial.
2. Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
3. Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

## Etymology
From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).

## Easily confused with
- **graphics** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graphic-vs-graphics)
- **graphite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graphic-vs-graphite)
- **graphical** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graphic-vs-graphical)
- **graph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/graph-vs-graphic)

## Common misspellings (11)
`garphic`, `ggraphic`, `grahpic`, `graphci`, `graphhic`, `graphicc`, `grapihc`, `grapphic`, `grpahic`, `grraphic`, `rgaphic`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/graphic