grattage
\ɡʁa.taʒ\
The verdict
“grattage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,642
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de gratter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grattage · grattage · French
grattage · rank #45,642 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,642
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grabuge
Nearest frequency peer: grabuge (-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 « grattage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gonflées
gonflées
54,362 corpus weight
- Gournay
Gournay
54,361 corpus weight
- grabuge
grabuge
54,360 corpus weight
- grattage
grattage
54,359 corpus weight
- grimoire
grimoire
54,358 corpus weight
- grossis
grossis
54,357 corpus weight
What this shows « grattage » 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 | grattage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grattage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around grattage (IPA \ɡʁa.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,642 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for grattage, with forms such as "garttage", "ggrattage", and "gratage". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "gratte", "grattant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grattage, spelled G-R-A-T-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de gratter.
- 2Vol, chourave.
- 3Action commise par un faussaire pour retirer une mention (comme le nom) d’un papier officiel pour la remplacer par une autre et fabriquer ainsi un faux document à partir d’un vrai.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grattage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une chance au grattage, une chance au tirage.
J’ai des mycoses, des infections bactériennes, un eczéma atopique généralisé, c’est une véritable infection, je suis en train de pourrir sur place et tout le monde s’en fout, personne ne peut rien pour moi, j’ai été honteusement abandonné par la médecine, qu’est-ce qu’il me reste à faire ? Me gratter, me gratter sans relâche, c’est ça qu’est devenue ma vi…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garttage
- ggrattage
- gratage
- gratatge
- grattaeg
- grattagge
- grattgae
- grrattage
- grtatage
- rgattage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grattage - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grattage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).