granite
\ɡʁa.nit\
The verdict
“granite” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,026
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche plutonique essentiellement de feldspaths et de quartz dans des proportions bien définies, ainsi qu'éventuellement de mica ou d'amphibole ayant une structure grenue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-granite · granite · French
granite · rank #26,026 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,026
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Godin
Nearest frequency peer: Godin (-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 « granite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- globaux
globaux
73,978 corpus weight
- gode
gode
73,977 corpus weight
- Godin
Godin
73,976 corpus weight
- granite
granite
73,975 corpus weight
- GRC
GRC
73,974 corpus weight
- Guichard
Guichard
73,972 corpus weight
What this shows « granite » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | granite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.nit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « granite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around granite (IPA \ɡʁa.nit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,026 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Roche plutonique essentiellement de feldspaths et de quartz dans des proportions bien définies, ainsi qu'éventuellement de mica ou d'amphibole ayant une structure grenue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for granite, with forms such as "garnite", "ggranite", and "grainte". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "grant", "gratte", "gravit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is granite, spelled G-R-A-N-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche plutonique essentiellement de feldspaths et de quartz dans des proportions bien définies, ainsi qu'éventuellement de mica ou d'amphibole ayant une structure grenue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how granite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe encore une classe de roches feldspathiques dont nous n'avons pas encore parlé, parce qu'elle est indépendante des granites: ce sont les eurites ou pétrosilex, tantôt purs, tantôt mélangés de cristaux de quartz, […].
Dans les environs de Zermo, dans la région comprise entre les deux massifs de quartzite qui se dressent au nord-est et au sud-est de Zinder, et dont nous avons déjà parlé, le granite émerge encore en plusieurs points au milieu des sables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garnite
- ggranite
- grainte
- graniet
- granitte
- grannite
- grantie
- grnaite
- grranite
- rganite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of granite - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).