racaille
\ʁa.kaj\
The verdict
“racaille” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,845
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des individus mauvais, appartenant à la partie la plus pauvre, la plus basse ou la plus méprisée du peuple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-racaille · racaille · French
racaille · rank #18,845 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,845
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH pédales
Nearest frequency peer: pédales (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « racaille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prétentions
prétentions
81,159 corpus weight
- punaise
punaise
81,158 corpus weight
- pédales
pédales
81,157 corpus weight
- racaille
racaille
81,156 corpus weight
- ramenée
ramenée
81,155 corpus weight
- Ramos
Ramos
81,154 corpus weight
What this shows « racaille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | racaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.kaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « racaille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around racaille (IPA \ʁa.kaj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,845 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for racaille, with forms such as "arcaille", "raacille", and "racailel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "raciale", "racailles", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is racaille, spelled R-A-C-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des individus mauvais, appartenant à la partie la plus pauvre, la plus basse ou la plus méprisée du peuple.
- 2Personnage issu de ce groupe d’individus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how racaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’oiseau chasseur lui dit : Ton peu d’entendement Me rend tout étonné. Vous n’êtes que racaille, Gens grossiers, sans esprit, à qui l’on n’apprend rien.
Pourrais-je fermer ma porte, n’ayant point de portier,- à toute la racaille des polissons, soi-disant gens de lettres, qui auraient la sotte curiosité de venir voir mon squelette ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arcaille
- raacille
- racailel
- racalile
- raccaille
- rcaaille
- rracaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of racaille - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).