grave
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#965
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grave is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui peut avoir des conséquences fâcheuses, profondes. Pronounced \ɡʁav\. It ranks #965 in French word frequency. Often confused with gré and gray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɡʁav\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grave is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁav\. Corpus data places it at rank #965 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for grave, with forms such as "garve", "ggrave", and "graev". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "gray", "grue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 grave, spelled G-R-A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui peut avoir des conséquences fâcheuses, profondes.
- 2Qui agit, qui parle avec un air sage, avec circonspection et dignité.
- 3Qui exclut toute idée d’enjouement, de plaisanterie, de gaieté.
- 4Lent, majestueux, solennel.
- 5Qui est de fréquence basse, en parlant d’une note, d’une voix, etc.
- 6Se dit d’un instrument qui a la propriété de produire facilement des notes essentiellement graves.
- 7Qui est soumis à la gravité.
- 8Qui est atteint gravement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garve,ggrave,graev,gravve,grrave,grvae,rgave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grave
Misspelling Variants of "grave"
Frequency rank: #965 in French
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