gratifier
\ɡʁa.ti.fje\
The verdict
“gratifier” is uncommon French (frequency #68,321 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,321
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Favoriser quelqu’un en lui faisant un don, une libéralité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gratifier · gratifier · French
gratifier · rank #68,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,321
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gouvernait
Nearest frequency peer: gouvernait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gratifier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- giffard
giffard
31,685 corpus weight
- gosset
gosset
31,682 corpus weight
- gouvernait
gouvernait
31,681 corpus weight
- gratifier
gratifier
31,680 corpus weight
- groen
groen
31,678 corpus weight
- Guermantes
Guermantes
31,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gratifier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gratifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ti.fje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gratifier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gratifier is uncommon French at frequency #68,321 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.ti.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for gratifier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gratifier, spelled G-R-A-T-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Favoriser quelqu’un en lui faisant un don, une libéralité.
- 2Attribuer mal à propos quelque chose à quelqu’un.
- 3Infliger, en parlant de sanctions, de coups, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gratifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] la mère Paul était rouée et profitait des pièces qu'on lui remettait de temps en temps pour jurer qu'on avait dû se tromper en la gratifiant d'un jeton de bar.
Nous sommes de beaux Jacques, allez, de gratifier de plus de trois mille francs ce mauvais docteur là. […]. Qui tombe jamais malade ici ?
This word in other languages
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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