Rafah
\ʁa.fa\
The verdict
“Rafah” is uncommon French (frequency #86,083 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,083
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville palestinienne située dans le sud de la bande de Gaza, à la frontière égyptienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rafah · Rafah · French
Rafah · rank #86,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,083
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Raiden
Nearest frequency peer: Raiden (+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 « Rafah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raccrochent
raccrochent
13,921 corpus weight
- raclettes
raclettes
13,920 corpus weight
- Rafah
Rafah
13,918 corpus weight
- Raiden
Raiden
13,917 corpus weight
- raideurs
raideurs
13,916 corpus weight
- rajab
rajab
13,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rafah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rafah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.fa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rafah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rafah is uncommon French at frequency #86,083 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁa.fa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Rafah has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Rafah, spelled R-A-F-A-H.
Definition
- 1Ville palestinienne située dans le sud de la bande de Gaza, à la frontière égyptienne.
- 2Poste-frontière entre Israël et le sud de la bande de Gaza.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rafah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Officiellement, l’Égypte n’a pas commenté la situation à Rafah, mais des « sources haut placées dans l’appareil sécuritaire » ont affirmé à une télévision proche des renseignements égyptiens que le pays « refuse l’installation des Gazaouis dans le Sinaï ».
Après le nord de la bande de Gaza puis les féroces combats à Khan Younès (dans le tiers sud de la bande de Gaza), direction l’extrême sud et la ville de Rafah, où s’entassent plus de 1,3 million de personnes ayant fui les combats, selon l’ONU, sur une population de 2,4 millions d’habitants à Gaza.
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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