racontar
\ʁa.kɔ̃.taʁ\
The verdict
“racontar” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commérage, nouvelle qui ne repose sur rien de sérieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-racontar · racontar · French
racontar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racontar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɔ̃.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
racontar is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.kɔ̃.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commérage, nouvelle qui ne repose sur rien de sérieux.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for racontar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is racontar, spelled R-A-C-O-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Commérage, nouvelle qui ne repose sur rien de sérieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how racontar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne l’ai pas encore vue mais si ce n’est pas un racontar, là où elle est utilisée elle fait un incroyable hachis de Prussiens.
Le livre se rachète par les personnages épisodiques, par les racontars sur la vie des femmes illégitimes de ces messieurs.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.