radeau
\ʁa.do\
The verdict
“radeau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,207
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblage de pièces de bois qui sont liées ensemble et qui forment une sorte de plancher flottant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radeau · radeau · French
radeau · rank #27,207 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,207
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiodiffusion
Nearest frequency peer: radiodiffusion (+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 « radeau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prônant
prônant
72,798 corpus weight
- périr
périr
72,797 corpus weight
- péréquation
péréquation
72,796 corpus weight
- radeau
radeau
72,794 corpus weight
- radiodiffus…
radiodiffusion
72,793 corpus weight
- rayonner
rayonner
72,791 corpus weight
What this shows « radeau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | radeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.do\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « radeau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around radeau (IPA \ʁa.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,207 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Assemblage de pièces de bois qui sont liées ensemble et qui forment une sorte de plancher flottant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for radeau, with forms such as "ardeau", "radaeu", and "raddeau". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "réseau", "rideau", "rameau", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is radeau, spelled R-A-D-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de pièces de bois qui sont liées ensemble et qui forment une sorte de plancher flottant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces gens-là se feraient prêter de l’argent par Harpagon, et auraient trouvé des truffes sur le radeau de la Méduse.
Le chevalier employa l’intervalle des deux attaques à faire construire une espèce de pont flottant, ou long radeau, au moyen duquel il espérait traverser le fossé, en dépit des efforts de l’ennemi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ardeau
- radaeu
- raddeau
- radeua
- raedau
- rdaeau
- rradeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of radeau - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).