Ra
\ʁa\
The verdict
“Ra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,648) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,648
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Autre transcription de Rê (dieu Soleil de la mythologie égyptienne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ra · Ra · French
Ra · rank #11,648 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,648
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 507,453
- PHOTO-FINISH pureté
Nearest frequency peer: pureté (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ra”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- prétendu
prétendu
88,356 corpus weight
- pudeur
pudeur
88,355 corpus weight
- pureté
pureté
88,354 corpus weight
- Ra
Ra
88,353 corpus weight
- raisin
raisin
88,352 corpus weight
- rallier
rallier
88,351 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ra” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ra” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ra is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ʁa\. Frequency #11,648 among 507,453 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Autre transcription de Rê (dieu Soleil de la mythologie égyptienne).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ra, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Ra, spelled R-A.
Definition
- 1Autre transcription de Rê (dieu Soleil de la mythologie égyptienne).
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.