gravats

\ɡʁa.va\

/\ɡʁa.va\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « gravats » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gravats vs graves
71% similar
gravats vs gravit
71% similar
gravats vs gravité
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gravats
PropertyValue
Headwordgravats
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁa.va\
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,973
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravats »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).gravatsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « grammatical » (#35,972), « greco » (#35,974), « goodies » (#35,971). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gravats » est au #35,973. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    La partie la plus grossière qui reste du plâtre après qu’on l’a cassé.
  2. 2
    Débris d’un bâtiment qu’on a démoli, ou déchets de matériaux d’une construction que l’on vient d’achever.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gravats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Battre les gravats.
  2. 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.

garvats2ggravats1graavts2gravast2gravatss1gravatts1gravtas2gravvats1
Edit distance from "gravats"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gravats"?
"gravats" is spelled G-R-A-V-A-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁa.va\.
What does "gravats" mean?
As a noun, "gravats" means: La partie la plus grossière qui reste du plâtre après qu’on l’a cassé.
What words are commonly confused with "gravats"?
"gravats" is commonly confused with "graves", "gravit", "gravité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gravats"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gravats" is \ɡʁa.va\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gravats" come from?
"gravats" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gravats", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list