radoter

\ʁa.dɔ.te\

/\ʁa.dɔ.te\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for radoter
PropertyValue
Headwordradoter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁa.dɔ.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,215
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « radoter » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).radotertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « radicalisées » (#95,214), « rageurs » (#95,216), « raconterait » (#95,213). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « radoter » est au #95,215. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Tenir des propos décousus qui prouvent un affaiblissement de l’esprit.
  2. 2
    Dire des choses sans raison, sans fondement.
  3. 3
    Répéter des choses déjà dites.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how radoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il est si vieux qu’il radote.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "radoter"?
"radoter" is spelled R-A-D-O-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.dɔ.te\.
What does "radoter" mean?
As a verb, "radoter" means: Tenir des propos décousus qui prouvent un affaiblissement de l’esprit.
How do you pronounce "radoter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "radoter" is \ʁa.dɔ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "radoter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "radoter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list