rachat

\ʁa.ʃa\

/\ʁa.ʃa\/ noun

The verdict

“rachat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,648
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de racheter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rachat · rachat · French

rachat · rank #6,648 · 9 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,648
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH quantités

Nearest frequency peer: quantités (-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 « rachat »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rachat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rachat vs Rachel
50% similar
rachat vs Rachid
50% similar
rachat vs racket
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rachat
PropertyValue
Headwordrachat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.ʃa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,648
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rachat »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rachatse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « quantités » (#6,647), « raisonnement » (#6,649), « remplie » (#6,650). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rachat » est au #6,648. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around rachat (IPA \ʁa.ʃa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,648 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rachat, with forms such as "archat", "racaht", and "racchat". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Rachel", "Rachid", "racket", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 rachat, spelled R-A-C-H-A-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de racheter.
  2. 2
    Paiement d’une certaine somme pour l’amortissement, pour l’extinction d’une rente, d’une pension.
  3. 3
    Délivrance, rédemption.
  4. 4
    Opération de désinvestissement vis-à-vis d’un fonds financier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rachat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vendre avec faculté de rachat, à condition de rachat.
  2. Dans les années 2000, les relations entre Harrods et la famille royale étaient pourtant tendues, en raison du rachat du groupe par Mohamed Al-Fayed, père de Dodi Al-Fayed, dernier compagnon de Lady Diana.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • archat
  • racaht
  • racchat
  • rachatt
  • rachhat
  • rachta
  • rahcat
  • rcahat
  • rrachat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rachat - 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.

archat2racaht2racchat1rachatt1rachhat1rachta2rahcat2rcahat2
Edit distance from "rachat"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rachat"?
"rachat" is spelled R-A-C-H-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.ʃa\.
What does "rachat" mean?
As a noun, "rachat" means: Action de racheter.
What words are commonly confused with "rachat"?
"rachat" is commonly confused with "Rachel", "Rachid", "racket". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rachat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rachat" is \ʁa.ʃa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rachat" come from?
"rachat" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rachat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list