radoub
\ʁa.du\
The verdict
“radoub” is uncommon French (frequency #87,069 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,069
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réparation au corps d’un bâtiment qui a subi des avaries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-radoub · radoub · French
radoub · rank #87,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,069
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radioscopie
Nearest frequency peer: radioscopie (-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 « radoub »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quickly
quickly
12,935 corpus weight
- rabaissent
rabaissent
12,934 corpus weight
- radioscopie
radioscopie
12,933 corpus weight
- radoub
radoub
12,932 corpus weight
- raffermisse…
raffermissement
12,931 corpus weight
- raffles
raffles
12,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « radoub » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radoub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.du\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « radoub » en français
Rare enough to double-check
radoub is uncommon French at frequency #87,069 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.du\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for radoub in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is radoub, spelled R-A-D-O-U-B.
Definition
- 1Réparation au corps d’un bâtiment qui a subi des avaries.
- 2Il se dit aussi, dans un sens analogue, en parlant des voiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how radoub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En un éclair tout me revint : il y avait tout juste dix ans, à quelques mois près, et je faisais alors le radoub dans la rade de Soerabaja, pour le compte des autres, évidemment !
Ce jour-là, St-Pierre Plamondon devra avoir complété le radoub sur le navire péquiste ! Sinon, il s’ajoutera aux coquilles vides.
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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