gravelet
\ɡʁa.vlɛ\
The verdict
“gravelet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un des noms vulgaires du grimpereau, notamment en Poitou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravelet · gravelet · French
gravelet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravelet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vlɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gravelet” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gravelet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.vlɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for gravelet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gravelet, spelled G-R-A-V-E-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Un des noms vulgaires du grimpereau, notamment en Poitou.
- 2Un des noms vernaculaires de la vandoise.
- 3Petit burin de sculpteur généralement utilisé pour les pierres dures.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.