gradation

\ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\

/\ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“gradation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,559
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Augmentation successive et par degrés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gradation · gradation · French

gradation · rank #48,559 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #48,559
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gonflant

Nearest frequency peer: gonflant (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gradation »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gradation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gradation vs graduation
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gradation
PropertyValue
Headwordgradation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#48,559
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gradation »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).gradationse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gonflant » (#48,558), « grammaires » (#48,560), « grattant » (#48,561). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gradation » est au #48,559. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around gradation (IPA \ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,559 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gradation, with forms such as "gardation", "ggradation", and "graadtion". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "graduation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gradation, spelled G-R-A-D-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Augmentation successive et par degrés.
  2. 2
    Figure de rhétorique qui consiste en la succession de termes classés par ordre croissant ou décroissant.
  3. 3
    Passage insensible d’une couleur à une autre.
  4. 4
    Artifice de composition qui consiste à faire saillir le personnage ou le groupe principal, en affaiblissant graduellement l’expression, la lumière, etc., dans les autres figures à mesure qu’elles s’éloignent du centre de l’action.
  5. 5
    Disposition de plusieurs parties qui sont rangées par degrés ou les unes au-dessus des autres et dont les formes et les ornements sont symétriques.
  6. 6
    Déclinaison d’un patron en plusieurs tailles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le cabinet de zoologie [du Jardin des Plantes, à Paris], qui est presque aussi spacieux, contient plus de 140.000 spécimens classés avec tant de clarté, que l’on peut suivre toutes les gradations de la nature animale, depuis l’éponge jusqu’à l’homme
  2. Mais leurs dépenses soutiennent le prix des productions de la meilleure qualité, ce qui entretient par gradation le bon prix des autres productions, à l'avantage des revenus du territoire.

This word in other languages

gradation(English)Abstufung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • gardation
  • ggradation
  • graadtion
  • gradaiton
  • gradatino
  • gradationn
  • gradatoin
  • gradattion
  • graddation
  • gradtaion
  • grdaation
  • grradation
  • rgadation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gradation - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

gardation2ggradation1graadtion2gradaiton2gradatino2gradationn1gradatoin2gradattion1
Edit distance from "gradation"

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 "gradation"?
"gradation" is spelled G-R-A-D-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\.
What does "gradation" mean?
As a noun, "gradation" means: Augmentation successive et par degrés.
What words are commonly confused with "gradation"?
"gradation" is commonly confused with "graduation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gradation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gradation" is \ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gradation" come from?
"gradation" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Gladstone#48,555Gérardmer#48,571Frankfurt#48,542herbicide#48,577

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

grammaires13 variantsgonflant13 variantsfébriles13 variantsfrangins13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list