grattoir

/\ɡʁa.twaʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#85,764

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

grattoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil ou instrument utilisé pour gratter ou pour racler. Pronounced \ɡʁa.twaʁ\.

Key facts for grattoir
PropertyValue
Headwordgrattoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁa.twaʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#85,764
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of grattoir in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for grattoir is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #85,764 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for grattoir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grattoir, spelled G-R-A-T-T-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Outil ou instrument utilisé pour gratter ou pour racler.
  2. 2
    Instrument propre à gratter le papier, le parchemin, etc., pour en enlever l’écriture ou les taches.
  3. 3
    Type d’outil préhistorique en silex taillé et retouché.
  4. 4
    Grille ou lame où l’on gratte ses chaussures avant d’entrer dans une maison; décrottoir ; gratte-pieds.
  5. 5
    Outil manuel d’ajusteur, généralement de section triangulaire, qui fonctionne par arrachement d’un copeau.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #85,764 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grattoir"?
"grattoir" is spelled G-R-A-T-T-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.twaʁ\.
What does "grattoir" mean?
As a noun, "grattoir" means: Outil ou instrument utilisé pour gratter ou pour racler.
How do you pronounce "grattoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grattoir" is \ɡʁa.twaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grattoir" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.