Which to use
“graine” is a noun and “gravée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #11,419
- “graine” frequency rank
- #17,439
- “gravée” frequency rank
- 28858
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | graine | gravée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Organe reproducteur des spermaphytes, formé par l’ovule fécondé et arrivé à maturité, contenant un embryon avec des réserves nutritives et protégé par un tégument. | Féminin singulier de gravé. |
Where the eye mixes graine and gravée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. graine (CCVVCV) and gravée (CCVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: graine vs gravée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: graine is \ɡʁɛn\ while gravée is \ɡʁa.ve\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
graine is recorded at frequency rank #11,419, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡʁɛn\. gravée is at rank #17,439, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁa.ve\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 28858, this pair ranks #320,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of graine vs gravée
Shared letters: aegr. Private to "graine": in. Private to "gravée": vé.
"graine" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV · "gravée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- graine ← garine · ggraine · graien · grainne · granie · griane · grraine · rgaine
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "graine" and "gravée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "graine" or "gravée" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "graine" and "gravée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "graine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "gravée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #320,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "graine" and "gravée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Graeme vs gravée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #320,228 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.