radoter
\ʁa.dɔ.te\
The verdict
“radoter” is uncommon French (frequency #95,215 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,215
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tenir des propos décousus qui prouvent un affaiblissement de l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radoter · radoter · French
radoter · rank #95,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,215
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radicalisées
Nearest frequency peer: radicalisées (-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 « radoter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rach
rach
4,789 corpus weight
- raconterait
raconterait
4,788 corpus weight
- radicalisées
radicalisées
4,787 corpus weight
- radoter
radoter
4,786 corpus weight
- rageurs
rageurs
4,785 corpus weight
- raillent
raillent
4,784 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.dɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radoter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radoter is uncommon French at frequency #95,215 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.dɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
radoter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is radoter, spelled R-A-D-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tenir des propos décousus qui prouvent un affaiblissement de l’esprit.
- 2Dire des choses sans raison, sans fondement.
- 3Répéter des choses déjà dites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est si vieux qu’il radote.
Il ne sait plus ce qu’il dit, il ne fait que radoter.
This word in other languages
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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