gramme
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,437
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gramme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ kilogrammes, et dont le symbole est g. À l’origine le gramme représentait la masse d’un centimètre cube d’eau au maximum de sa de... Pronounced \ɡʁam\. Often confused with grave and Grimm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gramme is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,437 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gramme, with forms such as "garmme", "ggramme", and "grame". 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, "grave", "Grimm", "grande", 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 gramme, spelled G-R-A-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de masse du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ kilogrammes, et dont le symbole est g. À l’origine le gramme représentait la masse d’un centimètre cube d’eau au maximum de sa densité.
- 2Désigne une petite quantité de quelque chose.
- 3Taux d’alcool dans le sang, en parlant d'une alcoolémie (qui s'exprime généralement en grammes par litre).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garmme,ggramme,grame,gramem,grmame,grramme,rgamme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "gramme"
Frequency rank: #17,437 in French
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