grattent
\ɡʁat\
The verdict
“grattent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,316 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,316
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de gratter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grattent · grattent · French
grattent · rank #55,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,316
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gramsci
Nearest frequency peer: Gramsci (-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 « grattent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goule
goule
44,689 corpus weight
- goy
goy
44,688 corpus weight
- Gramsci
Gramsci
44,686 corpus weight
- grattent
grattent
44,685 corpus weight
- grattes
grattes
44,684 corpus weight
- gréement
gréement
44,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grattent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grattent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grattent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grattent is uncommon French at frequency #55,316 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for grattent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 grattent, spelled G-R-A-T-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de gratter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de gratter.
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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