grasses
\ɡʁas\
The verdict
“grasses” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,764
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de gras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grasses · grasses · French
grasses · rank #18,764 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,764
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gifle
Nearest frequency peer: gifle (-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 « grasses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gauchistes
gauchistes
81,240 corpus weight
- gave
gave
81,239 corpus weight
- gifle
gifle
81,238 corpus weight
- grasses
grasses
81,237 corpus weight
- grosso
grosso
81,236 corpus weight
- had
had
81,234 corpus weight
What this shows « grasses » 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 | grasses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grasses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around grasses (IPA \ɡʁas\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,764 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de gras.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for grasses, with forms such as "garsses", "ggrasses", and "grasess". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grosse", "graves", "grises", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 grasses, spelled G-R-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de gras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grasses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’œil embrassait les plus blanches épaules, les unes de couleur d’ambre, les autres d’un lustré qui faisait croire qu’elles avaient été cylindrées, celles-ci satinées, celles-là mates et grasses comme si Rubens en avait préparé la pâte, enfin toutes les nuances trouvées par l’homme dans le blanc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garsses
- ggrasses
- grasess
- grassess
- grassse
- grrasses
- grsases
- rgasses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grasses - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).