radeaux
\ʁa.do\
The verdict
“radeaux” is uncommon French (frequency #54,825 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,825
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de radeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radeaux · radeaux · French
radeaux · rank #54,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,825
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quittance
Nearest frequency peer: quittance (-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 « radeaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- périmées
périmées
45,179 corpus weight
- quarterly
quarterly
45,178 corpus weight
- quittance
quittance
45,177 corpus weight
- radeaux
radeaux
45,176 corpus weight
- ralentissant
ralentissant
45,175 corpus weight
- Ramallah
Ramallah
45,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radeaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radeaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radeaux is uncommon French at frequency #54,825 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de radeau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for radeaux in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is radeaux, spelled R-A-D-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de radeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how radeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’obscurité et le bruissement marin enveloppèrent les radeaux, et il eût été bien difficile de discerner une ombre de vie sur ce point de l’océan.
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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