granit
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,687
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
granit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roche plutonique, dure, d’aspect granuleux et de teinte variable, composée de feldspath, de mica et de quartz. Pronounced \ɡʁa.nit\. Often confused with grant and gravi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.nit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for granit is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.nit\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,687 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for granit, with forms such as "garnit", "ggranit", and "graint". 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, "grant", "gravi", "gratis", 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 granit, spelled G-R-A-N-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roche plutonique, dure, d’aspect granuleux et de teinte variable, composée de feldspath, de mica et de quartz.
- 2Roche plutonique, dure, d’aspect granuleux et de teinte variable, composée de feldspath, de mica et de quartz.
- 3Se dit d’une couverture dont l’aspect est grenu.
- 4Granit belge : nom donné improprement à une variété de marbre noir moucheté de blanc
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garnit,ggranit,graint,granitt,grannit,granti,grnait,grranit,rganit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for granit
Misspelling Variants of "granit"
Frequency rank: #14,687 in French
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