rae
\ˈrɑ.e\
The verdict
“rae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,933) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,933
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grêle, grêlon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rae · rae · French
rae · rank #29,933 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,933
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiologie
Nearest frequency peer: radiologie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rae »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rabbi
rabbi
70,071 corpus weight
- radioactive
radioactive
70,070 corpus weight
- radiologie
radiologie
70,069 corpus weight
- rae
rae
70,068 corpus weight
- Ramsay
Ramsay
70,067 corpus weight
- rasage
rasage
70,066 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rae » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈrɑ.e\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rae »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rae is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈrɑ.e\. Frequency #29,933 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rae in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rae, spelled R-A-E.
Definition
- 1Grêle, grêlon.
- 2Grain.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).