raciste

\ʁa.sist\

/\ʁa.sist\/ adj

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The verdict

“raciste” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,611. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,611
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait preuve ou qui va dans le sens des théories du racisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-raciste · raciste · French

raciste · rank #4,611 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,611
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH quotidienne

Nearest frequency peer: quotidienne (-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 « raciste »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « raciste » 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).

raciste vs raconté
57% similar
raciste vs résisté
57% similar
raciste vs réaliste
75% similar

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

Key facts for raciste
PropertyValue
Headwordraciste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁa.sist\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,611
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « raciste »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.racistese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « quotidienne » (#4,610), « Raymond » (#4,612), « quai » (#4,609). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « raciste » est au #4,611. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around raciste (IPA \ʁa.sist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,611 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui fait preuve ou qui va dans le sens des théories du racisme.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for raciste, with forms such as "arciste", "racciste", and "raciset". 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, "raconté", "résisté", "réaliste", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is raciste, spelled R-A-C-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui fait preuve ou qui va dans le sens des théories du racisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Et pourtant les discriminations racistes se perpétuent, de génération en génération, dans des proportions massives et une remarquable indifférence.
  2. Le terme de « nazislamisme » désigne une idéologie fondée sur une approche raciste et religieuse alimentée par la lecture littérale dévoyée du texte coranique utilisé par des groupes sectaires comme le salafisme, le wahabbisme ou les Frères musulmans.

This word in other languages

racist(English)racista(Español)rassistisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arciste
  • racciste
  • raciset
  • racisste
  • racistte
  • racitse
  • racsite
  • raicste
  • rcaiste
  • rraciste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

arciste2racciste1raciset2racisste1racistte1racitse2racsite2raicste2
Edit distance from "raciste"

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 "raciste"?
"raciste" is spelled R-A-C-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.sist\.
What does "raciste" mean?
As an adjective, "raciste" means: Qui fait preuve ou qui va dans le sens des théories du racisme.
What words are commonly confused with "raciste"?
"raciste" is commonly confused with "raconté", "résisté", "réaliste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "raciste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raciste" is \ʁa.sist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raciste" come from?
"raciste" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Raymond#4,612pourrez#4,603soudain#4,625parlais#4,596

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

manager10 variantsglobale10 variantsampleur10 variantsfournit10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list