race
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,098
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
race is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lignée ; ensemble des ascendants et des descendants d’une même famille. Pronounced \ʁas\. It ranks #2,098 in French word frequency. Often confused with Re and RC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | race |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁas\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for race is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁas\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,098 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for race, with forms such as "arce", "racce", and "raec". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "RC", "rue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is race, spelled R-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lignée ; ensemble des ascendants et des descendants d’une même famille.
- 2^([1]) Groupe d’individus qui se distingue d’autres groupes par un ensemble de caractères physiques dont on attribue la constance, non pas à l’action du milieu, mais à une lointaine hérédité.
- 3^([1]) Variété physique constante dans l’espèce humaine.
- 4Rapport social où les individus sont assignés à une identité et un statut qui justifie leur position dominée dans les rapports sociaux.
- 5Classe d’hommes exerçant la même profession, ou ayant des inclinations, des habitudes qui leur sont communes.
- 6Subdivision des animaux, qui vient au-dessous de l’espèce ou de la sous-espèce, obtenue en lignée pure et dont l’unité est déterminée sur des critères morphologiques ou de performances économiques.
- 7Espèce animale, voire l’espèce humaine.
- 8Qualité nette et pure.
- 9Peuple ou espèce, distinguable par certaines caractéristiques physiologiques, à laquelle appartient un personnage dans certains univers de fiction.
- 10Cuite ; murge.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arce,racce,raec,rcae,rrace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for race
Misspelling Variants of "race"
Frequency rank: #2,098 in French
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