gratis
\ɡʁa.tis\
The verdict
“gratis” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,748
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans qu’il en coûte rien, gratuitement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gratis · gratis · French
gratis · rank #20,748 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,748
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH graphismes
Nearest frequency peer: graphismes (-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 « gratis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grandis
grandis
79,255 corpus weight
- graphismes
graphismes
79,254 corpus weight
- gratis
gratis
79,253 corpus weight
- généreuseme…
généreusement
79,252 corpus weight
- half
half
79,251 corpus weight
- HBO
HBO
79,250 corpus weight
What this shows « gratis » 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 | gratis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.tis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gratis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gratis (IPA \ɡʁa.tis\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #20,748 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sans qu’il en coûte rien, gratuitement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gratis, with forms such as "gartis", "ggratis", and "graits". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gris", "gravi", "graves", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gratis, spelled G-R-A-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Sans qu’il en coûte rien, gratuitement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gratis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Andoche connaît le Prospectus, il entre dans les idées du marchand, il n’est pas fier, il limousinera notre prospectus gratis.
On pouvait même admettre que si elle y hébergeait gratis le pauvre ménage du gars aux biques, c'était afin d'empêcher les gens trop curieux de s'introduire dans la maison […].
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gartis
- ggratis
- graits
- gratiss
- gratsi
- grattis
- grratis
- grtais
- rgatis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gratis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).