graduations

\ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃\

/\ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“graduations” is uncommon French (frequency #91,744 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,744
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de graduation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-graduations · graduations · French

graduations · rank #91,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,744
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH goudronnées

Nearest frequency peer: goudronnées (-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 « graduations »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graduations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for graduations
PropertyValue
Headwordgraduations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#91,744
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « graduations » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.graduationstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « goudronnées » (#91,743), « granulation » (#91,745), « gotti » (#91,741). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « graduations » est au #91,744. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

graduations is uncommon French at frequency #91,744 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de graduation.".

No misspelling variants are generated for graduations in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 graduations, spelled G-R-A-D-U-A-T-I-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de graduation.

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 "graduations"?
"graduations" is spelled G-R-A-D-U-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "graduations" mean?
As a noun, "graduations" means: Pluriel de graduation.
How do you pronounce "graduations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "graduations" is \ɡʁa.dɥa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list