graviton
/ˈɡɹavɪtɒn/
"graviton" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“graviton” is uncommon English (frequency #74,133 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,133
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.
Corpus desk
Index EN-graviton · graviton · English
graviton · rank #74,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,133
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH graveside
Nearest frequency peer: graveside (-1 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 “graviton”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gordian
Gordian
25,872 corpus weight
- gouges
gouges
25,871 corpus weight
- graveside
graveside
25,869 corpus weight
- graviton
graviton
25,868 corpus weight
- grebe
grebe
25,867 corpus weight
- grigio
grigio
25,864 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “graviton” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graviton |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹavɪtɒn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “graviton” in English
Rare enough to double-check
graviton is uncommon English at frequency #74,133 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɹavɪtɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for graviton, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gravity + -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society. The correct English form is graviton, spelled G-R-A-V-I-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.
Etymology
From gravity + -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society.
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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