granularité

\ɡʁa.ny.la.ʁi.te\

/\ɡʁa.ny.la.ʁi.te\/ noun

The verdict

“granularité” is uncommon French (frequency #93,830 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,830
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité ou propriété de ce qui est granulaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-granularite · granularité · French

granularité · rank #93,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,830
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gramm

Nearest frequency peer: gramm (-2 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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « granularité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « granularité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for granularité
PropertyValue
Headwordgranularité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁa.ny.la.ʁi.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#93,830
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « granularité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.granularitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « gramm » (#93,828), « Grexit » (#93,832), « Graaf » (#93,827). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « granularité » est au #93,830. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

granularité is uncommon French at frequency #93,830 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.ny.la.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for granularité in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented 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 granularité, spelled G-R-A-N-U-L-A-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité ou propriété de ce qui est granulaire.
  2. 2
    Plus petit niveau de détail géré.
  3. 3
    Caractéristique géométrique d’un granulat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La granularité d’une population est propre à ses individus.
  2. La granularité d’une phrase est le mot. La granularité d’un mot est la lettre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "granularité"?
"granularité" is spelled G-R-A-N-U-L-A-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.ny.la.ʁi.te\.
What does "granularité" mean?
As a noun, "granularité" means: Qualité ou propriété de ce qui est granulaire.
How do you pronounce "granularité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "granularité" is \ɡʁa.ny.la.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list