grâce
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#417
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grâce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui plaît dans les attitudes, les manières, les discours : Un certain agrément, un certain charme indéfinissable. Pronounced \ɡʁɑs\. It ranks #417 in French word frequency. Often confused with gré and GRC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grâce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grâce is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑs\. Corpus data places it at rank #417 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 grâce, with forms such as "ggrâce", "grace", and "grcâe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "GRC", "grec", 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 grâce, spelled G-R-Â-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui plaît dans les attitudes, les manières, les discours : Un certain agrément, un certain charme indéfinissable.
- 2Qualité du style qui consiste surtout à exprimer ses pensées d’une manière élégante, sans aucune peine apparente ; c’est l’élégance unie à la facilité.
- 3Faveur qu’on fait à quelqu’un pour lui être agréable, sans y être obligé.
- 4Bienveillance qu’une personne accorde à une autre, faveur.
- 5Aide que Dieu donne aux hommes pour leur salut.
- 6Pardon, indulgence.
- 7Remise de la peine que le prince ou l'autorité exécutive, fait à un condamné.
- 8Lettre de grâce.
- 9Remerciement, témoignage de reconnaissance.
- 10Air gracieux ; façons gracieuses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrâce,grace,grcâe,grrâce,grâcce,grâec,gârce,rgâce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grâce
Misspelling Variants of "grâce"
Frequency rank: #417 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: