Raab
The verdict
“Raab” is uncommon French (frequency #90,090 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,090
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Győr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raab · Raab · French
Raab · rank #90,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,090
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 507,453
- PHOTO-FINISH R0
Nearest frequency peer: R0 (-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 “Raab”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- quinconces
quinconces
9,914 corpus weight
- quis
quis
9,913 corpus weight
- R0
R0
9,912 corpus weight
- Raab
Raab
9,911 corpus weight
- rabattement
rabattement
9,910 corpus weight
- racoleurs
racoleurs
9,909 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Raab” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Raab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Raab” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Raab is uncommon French at frequency #90,090 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Raab has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Raab, spelled R-A-A-B.
Definition
- 1Győr.
- 2Affluent du Danube traversant le Sud-Est de l'Autriche et la Hongrie occidentale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Raab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
RAAB, autrement Javarin, (Géog. mod.) ville de la basse-Hongrie, capitale du comté du même nom, au confluent du Raab & du Rabnitz qui se rendent peu après dans le Danube. C’est une place fortifiée & dont les rues ne sont point pavées. L’évêché est suffragant du Grau. Les Turcs prirent Raab sous le sultan Amurat III, mais les comtes de Schwartzenbourg & de…
Javarin, […] ville de la basse-Hongrie, capitale du comté du même nom, au confluent du Raab & du Rabnitz qui se rendent peu après dans le Danube.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.