graduel
\ɡʁad.ɥɛl\
The verdict
“graduel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,963. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,963
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui va par degrés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graduel · graduel · French
graduel · rank #43,963 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,963
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissa
Nearest frequency peer: glissa (-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 « graduel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gex
Gex
56,041 corpus weight
- Giulio
Giulio
56,040 corpus weight
- glissa
glissa
56,039 corpus weight
- graduel
graduel
56,038 corpus weight
- Gramont
Gramont
56,037 corpus weight
- gravit
gravit
56,036 corpus weight
What this shows « graduel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graduel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁad.ɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « graduel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around graduel (IPA \ɡʁad.ɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,963 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui va par degrés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for graduel, with forms such as "garduel", "ggraduel", and "gradduel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gravel", "graduelle", "grade", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is graduel, spelled G-R-A-D-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui va par degrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graduel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Question oiseuse, aussi oiseuse que de demander si elle aurait pu empêcher […] le lent déclin, la désorganisation graduelle, qui, phase après phase, a délabré l’Empire occidental.
Avec la tactique du salami l'on innove en scindant le nouveau plan d'action en une série d'options politiques graduelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garduel
- ggraduel
- gradduel
- gradeul
- graduell
- gradule
- graudel
- grdauel
- grraduel
- rgaduel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of graduel - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "graduel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).