raad
\rat\
The verdict
“raad” is uncommon French (frequency #94,178 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,178
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conseil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raad · raad · French
raad · rank #94,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,178
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rachetait
Nearest frequency peer: rachetait (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « raad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quinqua
quinqua
5,826 corpus weight
- quinquennats
quinquennats
5,825 corpus weight
- raad
raad
5,823 corpus weight
- rachetait
rachetait
5,822 corpus weight
- raised
raised
5,820 corpus weight
- ranchs
ranchs
5,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rat\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raad is uncommon French at frequency #94,178 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \rat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conseil.".
raad has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is raad, spelled R-A-A-D.
Definition
- 1Conseil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Raad inwinnen.
Ten einde raad zijn.
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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