gravissant
\ɡʁa.vi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“gravissant” is uncommon French (frequency #85,766 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,766
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de gravir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravissant · gravissant · French
gravissant · rank #85,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,766
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grattoirs
Nearest frequency peer: grattoirs (-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 « gravissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- graduées
graduées
14,238 corpus weight
- grattoir
grattoir
14,237 corpus weight
- grattoirs
grattoirs
14,236 corpus weight
- gravissant
gravissant
14,235 corpus weight
- Greuze
Greuze
14,234 corpus weight
- griffée
griffée
14,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gravissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gravissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gravissant is uncommon French at frequency #85,766 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁa.vi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gravissant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is gravissant, spelled G-R-A-V-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de gravir.
- 2Se dit d’un animal représenté en train de monter le long d’une surface (meuble ou pièce). L’inclinaison de sa posture est donc différente de l’ordinaire. À rapprocher de grimpant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gravissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’or à deux renards affrontés de sable gravissant les versants d’une colline d’argent posée sur une rivière courante en fasce de sinople et chargée d’une roue de moulin de sable brochant en partie sur la rivière ; au chef d’or chargé d’une muraille crénelée de six pièces de sable, maçonnée du champ ; le tout enfermé dans un orle de gueules et de sable, qu…
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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