Grafton
The verdict
“Grafton” is uncommon French (frequency #92,795 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,795
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Cheshire West and Chester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grafton · Grafton · French
Grafton · rank #92,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,795
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gorgones
Nearest frequency peer: Gorgones (-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 « Grafton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gonflements
gonflements
7,210 corpus weight
- gorgeous
gorgeous
7,208 corpus weight
- Gorgones
Gorgones
7,207 corpus weight
- Grafton
Grafton
7,206 corpus weight
- grandiront
grandiront
7,204 corpus weight
- Granjon
Granjon
7,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Grafton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Grafton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Grafton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Grafton is uncommon French at frequency #92,795 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Grafton, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Grafton, spelled G-R-A-F-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Cheshire West and Chester.
- 2Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district d’Herefordshire.
- 3Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Wiltshire.
- 4Village d’Angleterre situé dans le district de Bromsgrove.
- 5Village de la Sierra Leone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Grafton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu de temps après, il regagne sa Sierra Leone natale. Il vit pour l’heure avec sa mère dans le village de Grafton, à l’extérieur de Freetown. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Gaïa, 2017, page 211)
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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