gravière
\ɡʁa.vjɛʁ\
The verdict
“gravière” is uncommon French (frequency #84,848 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,848
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carrière, d'où l'on extrait des graviers, et qui évolue souvent en étang.
Corpus desk
Index FR-graviere · gravière · French
gravière · rank #84,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,848
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gravis
Nearest frequency peer: gravis (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gravière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gravis
gravis
15,154 corpus weight
- gravière
gravière
15,153 corpus weight
- greffées
greffées
15,152 corpus weight
- grillagée
grillagée
15,151 corpus weight
- grillent
grillent
15,150 corpus weight
- gringe
gringe
15,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gravière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gravière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gravière is uncommon French at frequency #84,848 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁa.vjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carrière, d'où l'on extrait des graviers, et qui évolue souvent en étang.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gravière, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gravière, spelled G-R-A-V-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Carrière, d'où l'on extrait des graviers, et qui évolue souvent en étang.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marcq. — Il y a quelque temps, des travaux exécutée dans les gravières situées entre Marcq et Saint-Juvin, ont mis à jour les ossements d’un guerrier ainsi que les curieuses armes avec lesquelles il avait été inhumé.
Le vif tenait encore bon à l’entrée du bras. Puis, après quelques bouillons et retours de remous, un friselis de vaguelettes courait sur la gravière, avant de se lisser en eau morte.
Synonyms
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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