graveleux
\ɡʁav.lø\
The verdict
“graveleux” is an uncommon French word, ranked #63,800 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #63,800
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est mêlé de gravier ; qui contient du petit gravier ou du sable grossier.
| 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) |
Where “graveleux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for graveleux is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁav.lø\. Corpus data places it at rank #63,800 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “graveleux”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-V-E-L-E-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁav.lø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.