grabataire
\ɡʁa.ba.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“grabataire” is uncommon French (frequency #95,965 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,965
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est malade et qui ne peut plus quitter son lit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grabataire · grabataire · French
grabataire · rank #95,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,965
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goudronné
Nearest frequency peer: goudronné (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grabataire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gloutons
gloutons
4,040 corpus weight
- goudronné
goudronné
4,037 corpus weight
- grabataire
grabataire
4,036 corpus weight
- grandissaie…
grandissaient
4,035 corpus weight
- grape
grape
4,034 corpus weight
- griotte
griotte
4,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grabataire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grabataire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ba.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grabataire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grabataire is uncommon French at frequency #95,965 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.ba.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui est malade et qui ne peut plus quitter son lit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for grabataire in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grabataire, spelled G-R-A-B-A-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est malade et qui ne peut plus quitter son lit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grabataire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une grabataire.
Cet hôpital regorge de grabataires.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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