rabâcher
\ʁa.bɑ.ʃe\
The verdict
“rabâcher” is uncommon French (frequency #70,146 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,146
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dire souvent et inutilement les mêmes choses, se redire, radoter, ressasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rabacher · rabâcher · French
rabâcher · rank #70,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,146
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rabattent
Nearest frequency peer: rabattent (-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 « rabâcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quéquette
quéquette
29,858 corpus weight
- rabattent
rabattent
29,856 corpus weight
- rabâcher
rabâcher
29,855 corpus weight
- Rached
Rached
29,854 corpus weight
- ralentisse
ralentisse
29,853 corpus weight
- rassurait
rassurait
29,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rabâcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabâcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.bɑ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rabâcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rabâcher is uncommon French at frequency #70,146 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.bɑ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dire souvent et inutilement les mêmes choses, se redire, radoter, ressasser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rabâcher, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rabâcher, spelled R-A-B-Â-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dire souvent et inutilement les mêmes choses, se redire, radoter, ressasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rabâcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, si tu en rabâches un mot de plus, je t’apprendrai que je donne toujours autant que je reçois.
« Cette confiance de votre Directeur m’apparaît comme la plus flatteuse des promotions, mon cher Docteur ! » qu’il me rabâchait n’en plus finir.
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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