graminée
\ɡʁa.mi.ne\
The verdict
“graminée” is uncommon French (frequency #83,916 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,916
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute plante appartenant à la famille des Poacées (anciennement appelée Graminées).
Corpus desk
Index FR-graminee · graminée · French
graminée · rank #83,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,916
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gour
Nearest frequency peer: gour (-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 « graminée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glyphe
glyphe
16,088 corpus weight
- gores
gores
16,087 corpus weight
- gour
gour
16,086 corpus weight
- graminée
graminée
16,085 corpus weight
- graphologie
graphologie
16,084 corpus weight
- Gregori
Gregori
16,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graminée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graminée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graminée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graminée is uncommon French at frequency #83,916 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.mi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Toute plante appartenant à la famille des Poacées (anciennement appelée Graminées).".
No misspelling variants are generated for graminée in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is graminée, spelled G-R-A-M-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Toute plante appartenant à la famille des Poacées (anciennement appelée Graminées).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graminée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-dessus du lac s’étendaient de vastes « llanos, » hautes plaines couvertes de graminées.
Ailleurs encore, surtout dans la partie méridionale de la terrasse supérieure, de vastes espaces sont couverts de graminées appartenant surtout au genre Bromus.
Synonyms
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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