graphite
\ɡʁa.fit\
The verdict
“graphite” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,422. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,422
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-graphite · graphite · French
graphite · rank #32,422 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,422
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Granby
Nearest frequency peer: Granby (-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 « graphite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gentlemen
gentlemen
67,582 corpus weight
- gobelets
gobelets
67,581 corpus weight
- Granby
Granby
67,580 corpus weight
- graphite
graphite
67,579 corpus weight
- grimaces
grimaces
67,578 corpus weight
- guirlande
guirlande
67,577 corpus weight
What this shows « graphite » 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 | graphite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.fit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « graphite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around graphite (IPA \ɡʁa.fit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,422 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Definition
- 1Carbone 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 nucléaire, ainsi que pour fabriquer des mines de crayon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graphite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des électrodes de graphite.
Le graphite se clive facilement et est utilisé comme lubrifiant; ces faits proviennent directement des faibles interactions entre les couches.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garphite
- ggraphite
- grahpite
- graphhite
- graphiet
- graphitte
- graphtie
- grapihte
- grapphite
- grpahite
- grraphite
- rgaphite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of graphite - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).