Raffaele
\raf.fa.ˈɛ.le\
The verdict
“Raffaele” is uncommon French (frequency #64,727 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,727
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raphaël.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffaele · Raffaele · French
Raffaele · rank #64,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,727
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiés
Nearest frequency peer: radiés (-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 « Raffaele »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raccordée
raccordée
35,276 corpus weight
- radiés
radiés
35,275 corpus weight
- Raffaele
Raffaele
35,274 corpus weight
- ralliements
ralliements
35,273 corpus weight
- ramones
ramones
35,272 corpus weight
- rapportez
rapportez
35,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Raffaele » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Raffaele |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \raf.fa.ˈɛ.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Raffaele » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Raffaele is uncommon French at frequency #64,727 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \raf.fa.ˈɛ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raphaël.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Raffaele, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Raffaele, spelled R-A-F-F-A-E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Raphaël.
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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