graduate
\ˈɡɹæd.ju.eɪt\
The verdict
“graduate” is uncommon French (frequency #64,484 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,484
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obtenir un diplôme, terminer tous les niveaux d’un programme (au primaire, au secondaire ou à l’université).
Corpus desk
Index FR-graduate · graduate · French
graduate · rank #64,484 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,484
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH granulométrie
Nearest frequency peer: granulométrie (+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 « graduate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- golfs
golfs
35,523 corpus weight
- gordien
gordien
35,521 corpus weight
- graduate
graduate
35,517 corpus weight
- granulométr…
granulométrie
35,516 corpus weight
- graz
graz
35,515 corpus weight
- grumes
grumes
35,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graduate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graduate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɡɹæd.ju.eɪt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graduate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graduate is uncommon French at frequency #64,484 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈɡɹæd.ju.eɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obtenir un diplôme, terminer tous les niveaux d’un programme (au primaire, au secondaire ou à l’université).".
graduate has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is graduate, spelled G-R-A-D-U-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Obtenir un diplôme, terminer tous les niveaux d’un programme (au primaire, au secondaire ou à l’université).
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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