aggravement
\a.ɡʁa.vmɑ̃\
The verdict
“aggravement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui aggrave, augmentation d’un mal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aggravement · aggravement · French
aggravement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aggravement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁa.vmɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aggravement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɡʁa.vmɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ce qui aggrave, augmentation d’un mal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aggravement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aggravement, spelled A-G-G-R-A-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui aggrave, augmentation d’un mal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aggravement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moment où il reprend la plume, le diariste utilise le passé composé (« s’est aggravé») pour consigner l’aggravement de son état de santé.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.