gratte-ciel
\ɡʁat.sjɛl\
The verdict
“gratte-ciel” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édifice habitable ayant plus de 150 mètres de hauteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gratte-ciel · gratte-ciel · French
gratte-ciel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gratte-ciel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁat.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gratte-ciel is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁat.sjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Édifice habitable ayant plus de 150 mètres de hauteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gratte-ciel in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gratte-ciel, spelled G-R-A-T-T-E---C-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Édifice habitable ayant plus de 150 mètres de hauteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gratte-ciel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais sous les gratte-ciel flamboyants vibre une ville parallèle : un New York d’épaves humaines qui irriguent un vaste réseau de tunnels, de niches et de cavités.
À New-York, on jetait par terre des gratte-ciel encore neufs pour en construire de plus hauts et de plus chers.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.