graine
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,419
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
graine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe reproducteur des spermaphytes, formé par l’ovule fécondé et arrivé à maturité, contenant un embryon avec des réserves nutritives et protégé par un tégument. Pronounced \ɡʁɛn\. Often confused with gran and grand.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for graine is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,419 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for graine, with forms such as "garine", "ggraine", and "graien". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gran", "grand", "grave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is graine, spelled G-R-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organe reproducteur des spermaphytes, formé par l’ovule fécondé et arrivé à maturité, contenant un embryon avec des réserves nutritives et protégé par un tégument.
- 2Pénis, organe reproducteur mâle.
- 3Personne idiote.
- 4Œuf de ver à soie.
- 5Partie solide du noyau de la Terre.
- 6Idée qui se développe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garine,ggraine,graien,grainne,granie,griane,grraine,rgaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for graine
Misspelling Variants of "graine"
Frequency rank: #11,419 in French
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Nearby French words
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