Granville
\ɡʁɑ̃.vil\
The verdict
“Granville” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,974
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-granville · Granville · French
Granville · rank #28,974 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,974
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grillée
Nearest frequency peer: grillée (+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 « Granville »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- GN
GN
71,031 corpus weight
- goulag
goulag
71,029 corpus weight
- Granville
Granville
71,027 corpus weight
- grillée
grillée
71,026 corpus weight
- Guardiola
Guardiola
71,025 corpus weight
- gémissements
gémissements
71,023 corpus weight
What this shows « Granville » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Granville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃.vil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Granville »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Granville (IPA \ɡʁɑ̃.vil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,974 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Granville, with forms such as "garnville", "ggranville", and "granivlle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Granville, spelled G-R-A-N-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Manche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Granville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne le [l’Océan] voit pas infini, mais on le sent, on l’entend, on le devine infini, et l’impression n’en est que plus profonde. C’est celle que j’avais à Granville, sur cette plage tumultueuse de grand flot et de grand vent, qui finit la Normandie et va commencer la Bretagne.
Ils avaient parcouru les merveilleux pays qui bordent la baie de Saint-Michel. Granville, vieux nid de mouettes perché sur un roc, les étonna.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garnville
- ggranville
- granivlle
- grannville
- granvile
- granvilel
- granvlile
- granvville
- gravnille
- grnaville
- grranville
- rganville
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Granville - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).