gravats
\ɡʁa.va\
The verdict
“gravats” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,973
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La partie la plus grossière qui reste du plâtre après qu’on l’a cassé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravats · gravats · French
gravats · rank #35,973 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,973
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grammatical
Nearest frequency peer: grammatical (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravats »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gomis
Gomis
64,031 corpus weight
- goodies
goodies
64,030 corpus weight
- grammatical
grammatical
64,029 corpus weight
- gravats
gravats
64,028 corpus weight
- greco
greco
64,027 corpus weight
- griffon
griffon
64,026 corpus weight
What this shows « gravats » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.va\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravats »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gravats (IPA \ɡʁa.va\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,973 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gravats, with forms such as "garvats", "ggravats", and "graavts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "graves", "gravit", "gravité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 gravats, spelled G-R-A-V-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1La partie la plus grossière qui reste du plâtre après qu’on l’a cassé.
- 2Débris d’un bâtiment qu’on a démoli, ou déchets de matériaux d’une construction que l’on vient d’achever.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Battre les gravats.
La plupart du temps, après leur abandon, les maisons ont été démontées jusqu’aux fondations pour récupérer la pierre, et il ne reste bien souvent que les tranchées remplies de gravats, ainsi que des lambeaux de sol et les caves, pour reconstituer le plan des édifices.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garvats
- ggravats
- graavts
- gravast
- gravatss
- gravatts
- gravtas
- gravvats
- grravats
- grvaats
- rgavats
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gravats - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).