graduées
\ɡʁa.dɥe\
The verdict
“graduées” is uncommon French (frequency #85,763 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,763
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de gradué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graduees · graduées · French
graduées · rank #85,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,763
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Goodall
Nearest frequency peer: Goodall (-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 « graduées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- godfather
godfather
14,241 corpus weight
- Goodall
Goodall
14,239 corpus weight
- graduées
graduées
14,238 corpus weight
- grattoir
grattoir
14,237 corpus weight
- grattoirs
grattoirs
14,236 corpus weight
- gravissant
gravissant
14,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graduées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graduées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.dɥe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graduées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graduées is uncommon French at frequency #85,763 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.dɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de gradué.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for graduées in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is graduées, spelled G-R-A-D-U-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de gradué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how graduées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le reste, Robin Goffaux évoque la nécessité de réponses graduées, en fonction de l’importance particulière du site.
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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