gracier
\ɡʁa.sje\
The verdict
“gracier” is uncommon French (frequency #70,686 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,686
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire grâce à un condamné, commuer ou remettre sa peine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gracier · gracier · French
gracier · rank #70,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,686
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Grandville
Nearest frequency peer: Grandville (+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 « gracier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goodnight
goodnight
29,319 corpus weight
- gorgone
gorgone
29,318 corpus weight
- gracier
gracier
29,315 corpus weight
- Grandville
Grandville
29,314 corpus weight
- griot
griot
29,312 corpus weight
- grêles
grêles
29,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gracier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gracier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gracier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gracier is uncommon French at frequency #70,686 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire grâce à un condamné, commuer ou remettre sa peine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gracier, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gracier, spelled G-R-A-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire grâce à un condamné, commuer ou remettre sa peine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gracier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chef de l’État s’est refusé à gracier cet assassin.
Le roi vous fait donc grâce ? — Non, dit le duc, et je ne crois pas que Louis XIII ait plus jamais l'occasion de gracier ou d'enfermer qui que ce soit.
This word in other languages
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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