grammatical

\ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\

/\ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\/ adj

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The verdict

“grammatical” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,972
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la grammaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-grammatical · grammatical · French

grammatical · rank #35,972 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,972
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH goodies

Nearest frequency peer: goodies (-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 « grammatical »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « grammatical » 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).

grammatical vs grammaticale
92% similar
grammatical vs grammaticales
85% similar

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

Key facts for grammatical
PropertyValue
Headwordgrammatical
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\
Letters11
Frequency rank#35,972
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grammatical »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.grammaticalse 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 « goodies » (#35,971), « gravats » (#35,973), « Gomis » (#35,970). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « grammatical » est au #35,972. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around grammatical (IPA \ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,972 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for grammatical, with forms such as "garmmatical", "ggrammatical", and "gramamtical". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "grammaticale", "grammaticales", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grammatical, spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a rapport à la grammaire.
  2. 2
    Qui est selon les règles de la grammaire.
  3. 3
    Qui respecte les règles de production d’un énoncé propres à une langue donnée. Noam Chomsky a montré que la phrase « d’incolores idées vertes dorment furieusement » est grammaticale mais non pas acceptable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Discussion grammaticale.
  2. Journal grammatical.

Antonyms

agrammatical

This word in other languages

grammatical(English)grammatisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • garmmatical
  • ggrammatical
  • gramamtical
  • gramatical
  • grammaitcal
  • grammatcial
  • grammatiacl
  • grammaticall
  • grammaticcal
  • grammaticla
  • grammattical
  • grammtaical
  • grmamatical
  • grrammatical
  • rgammatical

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grammatical - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

garmmatical2ggrammatical1gramamtical2gramatical1grammaitcal2grammatcial2grammatiacl2grammaticall1
Edit distance from "grammatical"

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 "grammatical"?
"grammatical" is spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\.
What does "grammatical" mean?
As an adjective, "grammatical" means: Qui a rapport à la grammaire.
What words are commonly confused with "grammatical"?
"grammatical" is commonly confused with "grammaticale", "grammaticales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grammatical"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grammatical" is \ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grammatical" come from?
"grammatical" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

indiquaient#35,995inspectrice#36,002instigation#36,004irrecevable#36,013

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

francilien15 variantsinterposer15 variantsdéchirant15 variantsmentionnons15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list