gravure
"gravure" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gravure” is uncommon English (frequency #75,010 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,010
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gravure · gravure · English
gravure · rank #75,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,010
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grat
Nearest frequency peer: grat (-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 “gravure”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gosnell
Gosnell
24,998 corpus weight
- granitic
granitic
24,994 corpus weight
- grat
grat
24,992 corpus weight
- gravure
gravure
24,991 corpus weight
- Greencastle
Greencastle
24,989 corpus weight
- GSS
GSS
24,986 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gravure” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravure |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gravure” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gravure is uncommon English at frequency #75,010 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gravure, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Short for rotogravure. The correct English form is gravure, spelled G-R-A-V-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
- 2A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
for too long have the walls of our houses been adorned with examples of effete Old World portrait gravure.
THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. By O. S. Nock. Blandford Press. 18s. Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives from Locomotion to BR's Evening Star was broached to him.
Etymology
Short for rotogravure.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).