rafe
\ˈrafːe\
The verdict
“rafe” is uncommon French (frequency #67,816 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,816
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - .
Corpus desk
Index FR-rafe · rafe · French
rafe · rank #67,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,816
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Radu
Nearest frequency peer: Radu (-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 « rafe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Quillan
Quillan
32,190 corpus weight
- Radu
Radu
32,186 corpus weight
- rafe
rafe
32,185 corpus weight
- Rafi
Rafi
32,184 corpus weight
- raifort
raifort
32,183 corpus weight
- rappellerais
rappellerais
32,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rafe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈrafːe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rafe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rafe is uncommon French at frequency #67,816 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈrafːe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: ".".
No misspelling variants are generated for rafe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rafe, spelled R-A-F-E.
Definition
- 1.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rafe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Daoust ha perak ne rafe ket ?
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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