gravéolent
\ɡʁa.ve.ɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“gravéolent” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a une odeur forte, qui sent mauvais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graveolent · gravéolent · French
gravéolent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | gravéolent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ve.ɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gravéolent is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.ve.ɔ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a une odeur forte, qui sent mauvais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gravéolent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gravéolent, spelled G-R-A-V-É-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a une odeur forte, qui sent mauvais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravéolent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui-ci doit être de bonne qualité, car le savon noir, dont on se sert dans le Nord, et pour les pauvres gens, en France, imprime au linge avec lequel il a été lavé, une odeur désagréable, gravéolente, et devient souvent la cause d’une éruption à la peau.
Le meilleur opium est celui qui est dense, lourd, gravéolent, amer, qui se dissout promptement dans l’eau, qui est blanc, lisse, ni grossier ni grumelé, qui ne se prend pas dans l’eau comme le fait la cire, qui se fond quand on l’expose au soleil, qui, approché d’une lampe et allumé, s’enflamme sans répandre de fumée, qui conserve encore une odeur vive un…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.