grattoir
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grattoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Outil ou instrument utilisé pour gratter ou pour racler.
- 2Instrument propre à gratter le papier, le parchemin, etc., pour en enlever l’écriture ou les taches.
- 3Type d’outil préhistorique en silex taillé et retouché.
- 4Grille ou lame où l’on gratte ses chaussures avant d’entrer dans une maison; décrottoir ; gratte-pieds.
- 5Outil 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
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