graver
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,957
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
graver is aFrenchverb. It means: Tracer quelque trait, quelque figure avec le burin, avec le ciseau, sur du bois, sur du cuivre, sur du marbre, etc. Pronounced \ɡʁa.ve\. Often confused with grève and grove.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for graver is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,957 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for graver, with forms such as "garver", "ggraver", and "graevr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "grève", "grove", "gravi", 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 graver, spelled G-R-A-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tracer quelque trait, quelque figure avec le burin, avec le ciseau, sur du bois, sur du cuivre, sur du marbre, etc.
- 2Tracer, sur une planche de cuivre ou d’autre matière, la copie d’un tableau, d’un dessin, pour la reproduire ensuite plusieurs fois sur le papier, sur la toile, etc., par le moyen de l’impression.
- 3Façonner le poinçon avec lequel on frappe le coin d’une médaille, d’une monnaie.
- 4Façonner les poinçons avec lesquels on frappait les matrices qui servaient à fondre des caractères d’imprimerie.
- 5Imprimer fortement quelque chose dans l’esprit, dans la mémoire, etc.
- 6Écrire des données sur un disque optique tel qu’un CD, un DVD ou un blu-ray.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garver,ggraver,graevr,graverr,gravre,gravver,grraver,grvaer,rgaver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for graver
Misspelling Variants of "graver"
Frequency rank: #21,957 in French
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