gravity
\ˈɡɹæv.ə.ti\
The verdict
“gravity” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,189
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gravitation, gravité, pesanteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravity · gravity · French
gravity · rank #30,189 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,189
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH granges
Nearest frequency peer: granges (-2 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 « gravity »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gouttière
gouttière
69,816 corpus weight
- gracieuse
gracieuse
69,815 corpus weight
- granges
granges
69,814 corpus weight
- gravity
gravity
69,812 corpus weight
- grincer
grincer
69,810 corpus weight
- grove
grove
69,809 corpus weight
What this shows « gravity » 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 | gravity |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɡɹæv.ə.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravity »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gravity (IPA \ˈɡɹæv.ə.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,189 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gravity, with forms such as "garvity", "ggravity", and "graivty". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gravi", "granit", "gravir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gravity, spelled G-R-A-V-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Gravitation, gravité, pesanteur.
- 2Gravité, pesanteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Newton discovered the law of gravity.
His demeanor befits the gravity of the occasion.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garvity
- ggravity
- graivty
- gravitty
- gravityy
- graviyt
- gravtiy
- gravvity
- grravity
- grvaity
- rgavity
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gravity - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "gravity", 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).