girafe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,022
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
girafe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère ongulé artiodactyle et ruminant, originaire des savanes africaines, caractérisé notamment par un cou très allongé qui lui permet de dépasser souvent les cinq mètres. Pronounced \ʒi.ʁaf\. Often confused with graf and grâce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | girafe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒi.ʁaf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for girafe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒi.ʁaf\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,022 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for girafe, with forms such as "ggirafe", "giarfe", and "giraef". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "graf", "grâce", "grave", 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 girafe, spelled G-I-R-A-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère ongulé artiodactyle et ruminant, originaire des savanes africaines, caractérisé notamment par un cou très allongé qui lui permet de dépasser souvent les cinq mètres.
- 2Très haut verre à bière avec robinet, pouvant contenir deux à trois litres
- 3Très haut monocycle, avec une chaîne reliant le pédalier à l'axe de la roue.
- 4Personne de grande taille et sans grâce.
- 5Grande perche supportant un micro destiné à suivre les acteurs lors du tournage d’un film.
- 6Sorte d’escabeau équipé de garde-corps.
- 7Ponceuse ayant un long bras mobile, on l'utilise pour poncer les plafonds et les murs.
- 8Mixeur plongeant électrique.
- 9Type de wagonnet utilisé dans les mines et les carrières.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggirafe,giarfe,giraef,giraffe,girfae,girrafe,griafe,igrafe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "girafe"
Frequency rank: #26,022 in French
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