agrafe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,312
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
agrafe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit accessoire métallique servant à réunir deux éléments d’un même objet. Pronounced \a.ɡʁaf\. Often confused with arabe and agrégé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agrafe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for agrafe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡʁaf\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,312 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for agrafe, with forms such as "agarfe", "aggrafe", and "agraef". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "arabe", "agrégé", "agréée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is agrafe, spelled A-G-R-A-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit accessoire métallique servant à réunir deux éléments d’un même objet.
- 2Sorte de crochet qui passe dans un anneau appelé porte et qui sert à attacher ensemble différentes choses.
- 3Crampon de fer, qui sert à retenir des pierres, des marbres, à empêcher qu’ils ne se désunissent.
- 4Ornement sculpté, placé à la tête des arcs, qui semble unir entre elles, par une console ou un mascaron, les moulures de l’archivolte avec la clef de l’arc.
- 5Fil métallique aux extrémités pliables, qui permet d'attacher divers objets.
- 6Petite attache en acier ou en titane servant à fermer les plaies sans toucher le bord de celle-ci.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agarfe,aggrafe,agraef,agraffe,agrfae,agrrafe,argafe,garafe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agrafe
Misspelling Variants of "agrafe"
Frequency rank: #48,312 in French
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