grade

/\ɡʁad\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,705

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grade is aFrenchnoun. It means: Degré de dignité, d'honneur dans une hiérarchie. Pronounced \ɡʁad\. It ranks #6,705 in French word frequency. Often confused with gré and Gras.

Key facts for grade
PropertyValue
Headwordgrade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁad\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,705
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grade in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grade is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁad\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,705 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for grade, with forms such as "ggrade", "gradde", and "graed". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "Gras", "gray", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grade, spelled G-R-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Degré de dignité, d'honneur dans une hiérarchie.
  2. 2
    Degré dans la hiérarchie militaire.
  3. 3
    Degré de la hiérarchie universitaire.
  4. 4
    Degré de la hiérarchie dans la fonction publique.
  5. 5
    Groupe d'organismes vivants dont le plan d'organisation est relativement similaire.
  6. 6
    Unité de mesure d’angle plan égale à la centième partie d’un quadrant dans un système de division centésimale de la circonférence. Son symbole est gon.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggrade,gradde,graed,grdae,grrade,rgade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grade

Misspelling Variants of "grade"

ggrade6gradde6graed5grdae5grrade6rgade5
Misspelling Variants of "grade"

Frequency rank: #6,705 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grade"?
"grade" is spelled G-R-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁad\.
What does "grade" mean?
As a noun, "grade" means: Degré de dignité, d'honneur dans une hiérarchie.
What words are commonly confused with "grade"?
"grade" is commonly confused with "gré", "Gras", "gray". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grade" is \ɡʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grade" come from?
"grade" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.