gracias
\ɡʁa.sja\
The verdict
“gracias” is uncommon French (frequency #57,302 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,302
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de gracier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gracias · gracias · French
gracias · rank #57,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,302
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gracia
Nearest frequency peer: gracia (-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 « gracias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- girouettes
girouettes
42,703 corpus weight
- glacer
glacer
42,702 corpus weight
- gracia
gracia
42,700 corpus weight
- gracias
gracias
42,699 corpus weight
- guinguette
guinguette
42,698 corpus weight
- habana
habana
42,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gracias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gracias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.sja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gracias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gracias is uncommon French at frequency #57,302 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.sja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de gracier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gracias in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gracias, spelled G-R-A-C-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de gracier.
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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