gravis
\ɡʁa.vi\
The verdict
“gravis” is uncommon French (frequency #84,847 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,847
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel du participe passé de gravir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravis · gravis · French
gravis · rank #84,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,847
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gravière
Nearest frequency peer: gravière (+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 « gravis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gouvernantes
gouvernantes
15,158 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gravis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gravis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gravis is uncommon French at frequency #84,847 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gravis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gravis, spelled G-R-A-V-I-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel du participe passé de gravir.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gravir.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de gravir.
- 4Première personne du singulier du passé simple de gravir.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de gravir.
- 6Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de gravir.
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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