grava
\ɡʁa.va\
The verdict
“grava” is uncommon French (frequency #88,681 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,681
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de graver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grava · grava · French
grava · rank #88,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,681
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gratifiante
Nearest frequency peer: gratifiante (-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 « grava »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Grappa
Grappa
11,322 corpus weight
- gratifiante
gratifiante
11,321 corpus weight
- grava
grava
11,320 corpus weight
- Grimbergen
Grimbergen
11,319 corpus weight
- grippée
grippée
11,318 corpus weight
- gruge
gruge
11,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grava » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grava |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.va\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grava » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grava is uncommon French at frequency #88,681 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de graver.".
grava has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is grava, spelled G-R-A-V-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de graver.
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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