gravir
\ɡʁa.viʁ\
The verdict
“gravir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,568
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monter avec effort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravir · gravir · French
gravir · rank #23,568 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,568
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gourmande
Nearest frequency peer: gourmande (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- giron
giron
76,436 corpus weight
- gourmande
gourmande
76,434 corpus weight
- gravir
gravir
76,433 corpus weight
- grillage
grillage
76,432 corpus weight
- gémeaux
gémeaux
76,431 corpus weight
- Hank
Hank
76,430 corpus weight
What this shows « gravir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.viʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gravir (IPA \ɡʁa.viʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,568 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gravir, with forms such as "garvir", "ggravir", and "graivr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gravit", "gravité", "gravure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gravir, spelled G-R-A-V-I-R.
Definition
- 1Monter avec effort.
- 2Faire des efforts pour améliorer une situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À mesure qu’il gravissait le chemin en spirale qui partait du bas de la montagne et aboutissait à la grande porte, il voyait chaque façade à son tour jeter de la lumière par toutes ses fenêtres.
Aussi, lorsque, après avoir franchi une porte vitrée immense, donnant sur un vestibule un peu moins vaste que le Square du temple, nous nous engageâmes dans un large escalier aux marches déclives, usées et traîtresses, mais qu’une rampe remarquablement ciselée aidait à gravir sans péril, je me contentai, toujours prudent, d’admirer l’élégante rampe en sil…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garvir
- ggravir
- graivr
- gravirr
- gravri
- gravvir
- grravir
- grvair
- rgavir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gravir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).