gracile
\ɡʁa.sil\
The verdict
“gracile” is uncommon French (frequency #69,126 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,126
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est menu, léger, élancé, délicat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gracile · gracile · French
gracile · rank #69,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,126
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goto
Nearest frequency peer: goto (-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 « gracile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glitter
glitter
30,880 corpus weight
- gnostiques
gnostiques
30,879 corpus weight
- goto
goto
30,876 corpus weight
- gracile
gracile
30,875 corpus weight
- grammatical…
grammaticalement
30,874 corpus weight
- grassi
grassi
30,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gracile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gracile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.sil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gracile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gracile is uncommon French at frequency #69,126 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.sil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est menu, léger, élancé, délicat.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gracile, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gracile, spelled G-R-A-C-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est menu, léger, élancé, délicat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gracile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle est dramatiquement belle. Gracile et obscure.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).