gravissime
\ɡʁa.vi.sim\
The verdict
“gravissime” is uncommon French (frequency #53,383 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,383
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très grave, grave au maximum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravissime · gravissime · French
gravissime · rank #53,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,383
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gourdes
Nearest frequency peer: gourdes (-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 « gravissime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gnomes
gnomes
46,621 corpus weight
- gourdes
gourdes
46,619 corpus weight
- gravissime
gravissime
46,618 corpus weight
- grind
grind
46,617 corpus weight
- gymnastes
gymnastes
46,616 corpus weight
- gynécologues
gynécologues
46,615 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gravissime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravissime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vi.sim\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gravissime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gravissime is uncommon French at frequency #53,383 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡʁa.vi.sim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très grave, grave au maximum.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gravissime in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gravissime, spelled G-R-A-V-I-S-S-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Très grave, grave au maximum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravissime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Facebook et ses acolytes font courir à la planète des dangers gravissimes.
« Entre indécence, absence de respect, relativisme et négationnisme, la France insoumise et ses porte-paroles se sont illustrés par des propos gravissimes depuis le 7 octobre », écrivent-elles dans une lettre.
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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