gravité
\ɡʁa.vi.te\
The verdict
“gravité” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,138. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,138
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Champ de force gravitationnel d’un corps massif ; pesanteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravite · gravité · French
gravité · rank #5,138 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,138
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garage
Nearest frequency peer: garage (-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 « gravité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- from
from
94,866 corpus weight
- Gabriel
Gabriel
94,865 corpus weight
- garage
garage
94,864 corpus weight
- gravité
gravité
94,863 corpus weight
- géographique
géographique
94,862 corpus weight
- Hamon
Hamon
94,861 corpus weight
What this shows « gravité » 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 | gravité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gravité (IPA \ɡʁa.vi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,138 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gravité, with forms such as "garvité", "ggravité", and "graivté". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "gravure", "gravity", "gravitent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gravité, spelled G-R-A-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Champ de force gravitationnel d’un corps massif ; pesanteur.
- 2Sentiment ou qualité d’une personne ou d’une chose grave ; l’air, le ton grave et sérieux.
- 3Grande importance ; lourde conséquence.
- 4Caractère d’un son quelconque par rapport aux sons plus élevés, dans l’échelle générale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La matière solide contenue dans la vis reste dans la zone d’interpénétration ou tombe par gravité dans la partie basse du chenal, où elle est poussée par les filets arrières […].
[…] en outre, la gravité de son maintien et de son langage, et aussi bien le ton sonore qu’il affectait en parlant de l’autorité de l’Église et du clergé, engageait chacun à le tenir presque en odeur de sainteté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garvité
- ggravité
- graivté
- gravite
- gravitté
- graviét
- gravtié
- gravvité
- grravité
- grvaité
- rgavité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gravité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gravité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).