graphite

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The French entry for graphite is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.fit\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,422 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Carbone cristallisé constitué d’un empilement de graphène, naturel ou synthétique qui est utilisé comme lubrifiant, comme enduit réfractaire ou comme modérateur de neutrons dans un réacteur nucléai...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for graphite, with forms such as "garphite", "ggraphite", and "grahpite". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "gravité", "gratuite", "graphe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is graphite, spelled G-R-A-P-H-I-T-E.