grammes

/\ɡʁam\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,860

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

grammes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de gramme. Pronounced \ɡʁam\. It ranks #8,860 in French word frequency. Often confused with graves and Grammy.

Key facts for grammes
PropertyValue
Headwordgrammes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁam\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,860
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grammes in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grammes is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,860 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de gramme.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for grammes, with forms such as "garmmes", "ggrammes", and "gramems". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "graves", "Grammy", "grandes", 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 grammes, spelled G-R-A-M-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de gramme.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: garmmes,ggrammes,gramems,grames,grammess,grammse,grmames,grrammes,rgammes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grammes

Misspelling Variants of "grammes"

garmmes7ggrammes8gramems7grames6grammess8grammse7grmames7grrammes8
Misspelling Variants of "grammes"

Frequency rank: #8,860 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grammes"?
"grammes" is spelled G-R-A-M-M-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁam\.
What does "grammes" mean?
As a noun, "grammes" means: Pluriel de gramme.
What words are commonly confused with "grammes"?
"grammes" is commonly confused with "graves", "Grammy", "grandes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grammes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grammes" is \ɡʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grammes" come from?
"grammes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.