grattes
\ɡʁat\
The verdict
“grattes” is uncommon French (frequency #55,317 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,317
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gratte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grattes · grattes · French
grattes · rank #55,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,317
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grattent
Nearest frequency peer: grattent (-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 « grattes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Gts
Gts
44,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grattes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grattes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grattes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grattes is uncommon French at frequency #55,317 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de gratte.".
Zero misspellings are on record for grattes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is grattes, spelled G-R-A-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gratte.
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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