graisse
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,012
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
graisse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance onctueuse, de peu de consistance et fondant facilement, dite en chimie corps gras et répandue en diverses parties du corps de l’homme ou de l’animal. Pronounced \ɡʁɛs\. It ranks #9,012 in French word frequency. Often confused with grise and grass.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for graisse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,012 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for graisse, with forms such as "garisse", "ggraisse", and "graise". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "grise", "grass", "grosse", 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 graisse, spelled G-R-A-I-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance onctueuse, de peu de consistance et fondant facilement, dite en chimie corps gras et répandue en diverses parties du corps de l’homme ou de l’animal.
- 2Substance onctueuse et aisée à fondre tirée du corps des animaux, servant à diverses utilisations, notamment dans le domaine de la cuisine et de la cosmétique.
- 3Corps gras utilisé pour les besoins de l’industrie d’origine diverses, aussi bien organique que minéral.
- 4Corps gras, le plus souvent minéral, servant de lubrifiant pour les systèmes mécaniques.
- 5Altération qui se produit dans les vins, les cidres, etc., et qui les fait filer comme de l’huile.
- 6Épaisseur du trait ou du jambage d’un caractère ou d'une police.
- 7Fertilité de la terre, du sol (→ voir engrais).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garisse,ggraisse,graise,graises,grasise,griasse,grraisse,rgaisse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for graisse
Misspelling Variants of "graisse"
Frequency rank: #9,012 in French
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