graveleux
\ɡʁav.lø\
The verdict
“graveleux” is uncommon French (frequency #63,800 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,800
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est mêlé de gravier ; qui contient du petit gravier ou du sable grossier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graveleux · graveleux · French
graveleux · rank #63,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,800
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH griffons
Nearest frequency peer: griffons (+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 « graveleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gori
gori
36,204 corpus weight
- gouges
gouges
36,203 corpus weight
- graveleux
graveleux
36,201 corpus weight
- griffons
griffons
36,200 corpus weight
- grives
grives
36,199 corpus weight
- grog
grog
36,198 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « graveleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graveleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁav.lø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « graveleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
graveleux is uncommon French at frequency #63,800 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁav.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for graveleux in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 graveleux, spelled G-R-A-V-E-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est mêlé de gravier ; qui contient du petit gravier ou du sable grossier.
- 2Qualifie un fruit dont la chair renferme de petits amas d’une espèce de concrétion dure en forme de gravier.
- 3Relatif à la gravelle ou qui la dénote.
- 4Qui est sujet à la gravelle.
- 5Licencieux, obscène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how graveleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que, sur cette longue colline graveleuse du Médoc, tant de châteaux sont bâtis au milieu des vignes qui occupent tout le terrain, celui-là s’élève au milieu de jardins aux pelouses verdoyantes et de bois ombreux.
La terre que je cultive, située sur le territoire de Chanteheux, se monte à 500 jours de terre (100 hect.), et 140 fauchées de prés (28 hect.) ; le terrain est sec, sablonneux et graveleux.
This word in other languages
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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