grasses

\ɡʁas\

/\ɡʁas\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « grasses » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

grasses vs grosse
71% similar
grasses vs graves
71% similar
grasses vs grises
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for grasses
PropertyValue
Headwordgrasses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɡʁas\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,764
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grasses »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).grassesse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gifle » (#18,763), « grosso » (#18,765), « gave » (#18,762). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « grasses » est au #18,764. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de gras.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

garsses2ggrasses1grasess2grassess1grassse2grrasses1grsases2rgasses2
Edit distance from "grasses"

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 "grasses"?
"grasses" is spelled G-R-A-S-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁas\.
What does "grasses" mean?
As an adjective, "grasses" means: Féminin pluriel de gras.
What words are commonly confused with "grasses"?
"grasses" is commonly confused with "grosse", "graves", "grises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "grasses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grasses" is \ɡʁas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grasses" come from?
"grasses" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list