gravures
\ɡʁa.vyʁ\
The verdict
“gravures” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,179
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gravure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gravures · gravures · French
gravures · rank #13,179 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,179
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gendre
Nearest frequency peer: gendre (-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 « gravures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- féroce
féroce
86,825 corpus weight
- gagnez
gagnez
86,824 corpus weight
- gendre
gendre
86,823 corpus weight
- gravures
gravures
86,822 corpus weight
- grossier
grossier
86,821 corpus weight
- habituelles
habituelles
86,820 corpus weight
What this shows « gravures » 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 | gravures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁa.vyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gravures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gravures (IPA \ɡʁa.vyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,179 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gravure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gravures, with forms such as "garvures", "ggravures", and "grauvres". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "graves", "gravure", "gravées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gravures, spelled G-R-A-V-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gravure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gravures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi la duchesse avait-elle conservé ces lettres émouvantes, comme certains vieillards ont des gravures obscènes, à cause des éloges hyperboliques donnés à ce qu’elle avait de moins duchesse en elle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garvures
- ggravures
- grauvres
- gravrues
- gravuers
- gravuress
- gravurres
- gravurse
- gravvures
- grravures
- grvaures
- rgavures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gravures - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).