gravier
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,848
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gravier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roche détritique à éléments assez gros (sables grossiers et cailloux), d’origine fluviatile ou littorale. Pronounced \ɡʁa.vje\. Often confused with gravir and gravit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gravier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa.vje\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,848 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for gravier, with forms such as "garvier", "ggravier", and "graiver". 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, "gravir", "gravit", "gravité", 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 gravier, spelled G-R-A-V-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roche détritique à éléments assez gros (sables grossiers et cailloux), d’origine fluviatile ou littorale.
- 2Ensemble de petits cailloux servant au revêtement des allées, dans un jardin, etc.
- 3Pierres concassées, de diamètres de 0,5 à 4 cm, servant au revêtement des chemins carrossables non asphaltés, et au remplissage de volumes pour lesquels on désire que l’écoulement d’eau soit maximal.
- 4Concrétions assez grosses analogues à de petites pierres qui se forment dans les reins ou dans la vessie.
- 5Personne chargée d’étaler et de faire sécher la morue ou d’autres poissons sur les graves, les terrains caillouteux du rivage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garvier,ggravier,graiver,graveir,gravierr,gravire,gravvier,grravier,grvaier,rgavier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "gravier"
Frequency rank: #19,848 in French
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