rad
The verdict
“rad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,705) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,705
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du radian, unité de mesure d’angle plan du Système international (SI).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rad · rad · French
rad · rank #28,705 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,705
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quiche
Nearest frequency peer: quiche (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rad »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pupitre
pupitre
71,299 corpus weight
- quenelle
quenelle
71,298 corpus weight
- quiche
quiche
71,297 corpus weight
- rad
rad
71,296 corpus weight
- radin
radin
71,295 corpus weight
- raffineries
raffineries
71,294 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rad » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rad »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rad is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #28,705 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du radian, unité de mesure d’angle plan du Système international (SI).".
rad has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 rad, spelled R-A-D.
Definition
- 1Symbole du radian, unité de mesure d’angle plan du Système international (SI).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une mesure de 2π rad correspond à 360°.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).