gratteur de papier
\ɡʁa.tœʁ də pa.pje\
The verdict
“gratteur de papier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui écrit sans talent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gratteur-de-papier · gratteur de papier · French
gratteur de papier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | gratteur de papier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.tœʁ də pa.pje\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gratteur de papier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.tœʁ də pa.pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui écrit sans talent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gratteur de papier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gratteur de papier, spelled G-R-A-T-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-A-P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui écrit sans talent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gratteur de papier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Duc. – Renzo, un homme à craindre ! le plus fieffé poltron ! une femmelette, l’ombre d’un ruffian énervé ! un rêveur qui marche nuit et jour sans épée, de peur d’en apercevoir l’ombre à son côté ! d’ailleurs un philosophe, un gratteur de papier, un méchant poète qui ne sait seulement pas faire un sonnet !
Synonyms
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.