Which to use
“grasses” and “gravées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,764
- “grasses” frequency rank
- #23,227
- “gravées” frequency rank
- 41991
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | grasses | gravées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de gras. | Féminin pluriel de gravé. |
Where the eye mixes grasses and gravées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. grasses (CCVCCVC) and gravées (CCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: grasses vs gravées
A purely visual mix-up. grasses (\ɡʁas\) and gravées (\ɡʁa.ve\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41991, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
grasses is recorded at frequency rank #18,764, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁas\. gravées is at rank #23,227, 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 41991, this pair ranks #229,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of grasses vs gravées
Shared letters: aegrs. Private to "grasses": -. Private to "gravées": vé.
"grasses" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC · "gravées" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- grasses ← garsses · ggrasses · grasess · grassess · grassse · grrasses · grsases · rgasses
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "grasses" for "gravées" ever safe?
Which is more common, "grasses" or "gravées"?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "grasses" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "gravées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #229,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "grasses" and "gravées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "graisser vs grasses". 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 #229,017 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.