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radeau

French, noun/ʁa.do/

radeau is spelled R-A-D-E-A-U (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,000th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Radeau is a French masculine noun meaning “raft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assemblage de pièces de bois qui sont liées ensemble et qui forment une sorte de plancher flottant”.

What does radeau mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineraft

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Assemblage de pièces de bois qui sont liées ensemble et qui forment une sorte de plancher flottant.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of radeau

  • radeaux plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce radeau?

  • /ʁa.do/
  • \ʁa.do\
  • [ʁa.do]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to radeau

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is radeau in French?

radeau appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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