Radegonde
\ʁa.də.ɡɔ̃d\
The verdict
“Radegonde” is uncommon French (frequency #72,658 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,658
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Princesse thuringienne, devenue reine des Francs en épousant Clotaire Iᵉʳ, fils de Clovis. Sainte patronne de Poitiers, elle est fêtée le 13 août.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radegonde · Radegonde · French
Radegonde · rank #72,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,658
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raines
Nearest frequency peer: raines (+2 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 « Radegonde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pétrifiés
pétrifiés
27,347 corpus weight
- qualifierais
qualifierais
27,346 corpus weight
- Radegonde
Radegonde
27,343 corpus weight
- raines
raines
27,341 corpus weight
- rainette
rainette
27,340 corpus weight
- rajouterais
rajouterais
27,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Radegonde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Radegonde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.də.ɡɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Radegonde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Radegonde is uncommon French at frequency #72,658 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁa.də.ɡɔ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Princesse thuringienne, devenue reine des Francs en épousant Clotaire Iᵉʳ, fils de Clovis. Sainte patronne de Poitiers, elle est fêtée le 13 août.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Radegonde in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Radegonde, spelled R-A-D-E-G-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Princesse thuringienne, devenue reine des Francs en épousant Clotaire Iᵉʳ, fils de Clovis. Sainte patronne de Poitiers, elle est fêtée le 13 août.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Radegonde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
POITIERS – […]Trente-huit maisons religieuses dans cette seule ville : le pensionnat des jésuites a sept cent cinquante élèves. — Tout est écrasé sous l’influence de Mgr Pie. — On compte par an trois cent mille personnes qui viennent à la châsse de sainte Radegonde ; quand vient la fête de la sainte, en août, les pèlerins sont si nombreux et en général si…
« Comment sainte Radegonde ne sait-elle pas le logarithme de 9 ? C’est incroyable ! »
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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