racoler
\ʁa.kɔ.le\
The verdict
“racoler” is uncommon French (frequency #91,076 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,076
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attirer, solliciter, des individus parmi le public, dans le but d’en soutirer un avantage quelconque tel que de l’argent ou un service.
Corpus desk
Index FR-racoler · racoler · French
racoler · rank #91,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,076
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racks
Nearest frequency peer: racks (-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 « racoler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rabaud
Rabaud
8,927 corpus weight
- racks
racks
8,926 corpus weight
- racoler
racoler
8,925 corpus weight
- raffermit
raffermit
8,924 corpus weight
- rait
rait
8,923 corpus weight
- rajouts
rajouts
8,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « racoler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « racoler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
racoler is uncommon French at frequency #91,076 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.kɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for racoler, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is racoler, spelled R-A-C-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Attirer, solliciter, des individus parmi le public, dans le but d’en soutirer un avantage quelconque tel que de l’argent ou un service.
- 2Aborder des clients potentiels, en parlant d’une prostituée, ou d’un prostitué.
- 3Faire du marketing outrancier.
- 4Pêcher de manière illégale. ^([1])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how racoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Racoler des partisans, des auditeurs.
Or nous avions fini, tout en conversant, par arriver faubourg du Temple, où des filles, à l’entrée du passage, racolaient.
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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