gracier

\ɡʁa.sje\

/\ɡʁa.sje\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gracier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for gracier
PropertyValue
Headwordgracier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡʁa.sje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,686
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « gracier » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).graciertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Grandville » (#70,687), « gorgone » (#70,683), « griot » (#70,689). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gracier » est au #70,686. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Faire grâce à un condamné, commuer ou remettre sa peine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gracier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le chef de l’État s’est refusé à gracier cet assassin.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gracier"?
"gracier" is spelled G-R-A-C-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.sje\.
What does "gracier" mean?
As a verb, "gracier" means: Faire grâce à un condamné, commuer ou remettre sa peine.
How do you pronounce "gracier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gracier" is \ɡʁa.sje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gracier" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gracier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list