gracieuses
\ɡʁa.sjøz\
The verdict
“gracieuses” is uncommon French (frequency #62,315 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,315
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de gracieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gracieuses · gracieuses · French
gracieuses · rank #62,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,315
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goûters
Nearest frequency peer: goûters (-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 « gracieuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- globulaire
globulaire
37,689 corpus weight
- goûters
goûters
37,687 corpus weight
- gracieuses
gracieuses
37,686 corpus weight
- gradin
gradin
37,685 corpus weight
- gravelle
gravelle
37,684 corpus weight
- grazie
grazie
37,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gracieuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gracieuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gracieuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gracieuses is uncommon French at frequency #62,315 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.sjøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de gracieux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gracieuses in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gracieuses, spelled G-R-A-C-I-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de gracieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gracieuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus d’une fois, je suis resté attendri, songeant à de délicieux moments : soit que je revisse cette délicieuse fille assise près de ma table, occupée à coudre, paisible, silencieuse, recueillie et faiblement éclairée par le jour qui, descendant de ma lucarne, dessinait de légers reflets argentés sur sa belle chevelure noire; soit que j’entendisse son rir…
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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