graduer
\ɡʁa.dɥe\
The verdict
“graduer” is uncommon French (frequency #88,677 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,677
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diviser par degrés d’égale longueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graduer · graduer · French
graduer · rank #88,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goulags
Nearest frequency peer: goulags (-2 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 « graduer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goudrons
goudrons
11,327 corpus weight
- goulags
goulags
11,326 corpus weight
- graduer
graduer
11,324 corpus weight
- Grappa
Grappa
11,322 corpus weight
- gratifiante
gratifiante
11,321 corpus weight
- grava
grava
11,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graduer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graduer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.dɥe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graduer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graduer is uncommon French at frequency #88,677 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.dɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for graduer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is graduer, spelled G-R-A-D-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Diviser par degrés d’égale longueur.
- 2Augmenter par degrés.
- 3Pourvoir d’un grade dans quelqu’une des facultés de droit, de médecine, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graduer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'aurais pu croire qu'ils jouaient au mistigri si je n'avais su que mon père s'était mis en tête d'expliquer au jardinier l’échelle de Mohs qui gradue les minéraux selon leur dureté, de un (le talc) à dix (le diamant).
Graduer un thermomètre, un baromètre, les cercles d’une sphère, les cartes de géographie, une échelle.
This word in other languages
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).