Radu

name

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The verdict

“Radu” is uncommon French (frequency #67,815 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,815
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-radu · Radu · French

Radu · rank #67,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,815
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rafe

Nearest frequency peer: rafe (+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 « Radu »

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 « Radu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Radu
PropertyValue
HeadwordRadu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#67,815
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Radu » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Radutombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « rafe » (#67,816), « Rafi » (#67,817), « raifort » (#67,818). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « Radu » est au #67,815. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Radu is uncommon French at frequency #67,815 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Radu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Radu, spelled R-A-D-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Radu Drăgușin.
  2. Radu Muntean.

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 "Radu"?
"Radu" is spelled R-A-D-U.
What does "Radu" mean?
As a proper noun, "Radu" means: Prénom masculin.
What language does "Radu" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rafe#67,816Rafi#67,817pola#67,781roti#67,855

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list