gravement
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,445
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
gravement is anFrenchadv. It means: Avec gravité ; d’une manière composée. Pronounced \ɡʁav.mɑ̃\. It ranks #7,445 in French word frequency. Often confused with gravitent and grièvement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \ɡʁav.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gravement is 9 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁav.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,445 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for gravement, with forms such as "garvement", "ggravement", and "graevment". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "gravitent", "grièvement", "gaiement", 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 gravement, spelled G-R-A-V-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avec gravité ; d’une manière composée.
- 2Dangereusement, d’une manière à entraîner de fâcheuses conséquences.
- 3Il indique un mouvement lent, mais moins lent que le mouvement indiqué par lentement. On dit et on écrit plus ordinairement grave en italien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garvement,ggravement,graevment,graveemnt,gravemennt,gravementt,gravemetn,gravemment,gravemnet,gravmeent,gravvement,grravement,grvaement,rgavement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gravement
Misspelling Variants of "gravement"
Frequency rank: #7,445 in French
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Nearby French words
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