grammaire

\ɡʁa.mɛʁ\

/\ɡʁa.mɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“grammaire” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,573. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,573
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de parler et d’écrire correctement, ensemble des règles d’une langue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-grammaire · grammaire · French

grammaire · rank #7,573 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,573
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH GPS

Nearest frequency peer: GPS (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « grammaire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « grammaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

grammaire vs grammar
78% similar
grammaire vs grammaires
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for grammaire
PropertyValue
Headwordgrammaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁa.mɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,573
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grammaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).grammairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « GPS » (#7,572), « grenier » (#7,574), « guérir » (#7,575). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « grammaire » est au #7,573. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around grammaire (IPA \ɡʁa.mɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,573 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for grammaire, with forms such as "garmmaire", "ggrammaire", and "gramaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "grammar", "grammaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grammaire, spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de parler et d’écrire correctement, ensemble des règles d’une langue.
  2. 2
    Livre où sont exposées les règles d’une langue.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des règles d’un art, d’un domaine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how grammaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. PHILAMINTE : Quoi, toujours malgré nos remontrances, Heurter le fondement de toutes les sciences ; La grammaire qui sait régenter jusqu’aux rois, Et les fait la main haute obéir à ses lois ?
  2. BÉLISE : Veux-tu toute ta vie offenser la grammaire ? MARTINE : Qui parle d’offenser grand’mère ni grand-père ?

This word in other languages

grammar(English)gramática(Español)Grammatik(Deutsch)gramática(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • garmmaire
  • ggrammaire
  • gramaire
  • gramamire
  • grammaier
  • grammairre
  • grammarie
  • grammiare
  • grmamaire
  • grrammaire
  • rgammaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grammaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

garmmaire2ggrammaire1gramaire1gramamire2grammaier2grammairre1grammarie2grammiare2
Edit distance from "grammaire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grammaire"?
"grammaire" is spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.mɛʁ\.
What does "grammaire" mean?
As a noun, "grammaire" means: Art de parler et d’écrire correctement, ensemble des règles d’une langue.
What words are commonly confused with "grammaire"?
"grammaire" is commonly confused with "grammar", "grammaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grammaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grammaire" is \ɡʁa.mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grammaire" come from?
"grammaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grammaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

injustice#7,581magistrat#7,588dépendant#7,555masculine#7,594

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

galeries11 variantsimmigrés11 variantsformant11 variantsFlandre11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list