gradués
\ɡʁa.dɥe\
The verdict
“gradués” is uncommon French (frequency #73,196 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,196
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de graduer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gradues · gradués · French
gradués · rank #73,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,196
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH goyave
Nearest frequency peer: goyave (-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 « gradués »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gonorrhée
gonorrhée
26,808 corpus weight
- gow
gow
26,807 corpus weight
- goyave
goyave
26,806 corpus weight
- gradués
gradués
26,805 corpus weight
- grammairiens
grammairiens
26,803 corpus weight
- grandet
grandet
26,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gradués » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gradués |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.dɥe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gradués » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gradués is uncommon French at frequency #73,196 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.dɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de graduer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gradués in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gradués, spelled G-R-A-D-U-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de graduer.
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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