raffles
\ʁafl\
The verdict
“raffles” is uncommon French (frequency #87,071 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,071
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de raffle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raffles · raffles · French
raffles · rank #87,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,071
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raffermisseme…
Nearest frequency peer: raffermissement (-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 « raffles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- radioscopie
radioscopie
12,933 corpus weight
- radoub
radoub
12,932 corpus weight
- raffermisse…
raffermissement
12,931 corpus weight
- raffles
raffles
12,930 corpus weight
- raflent
raflent
12,929 corpus weight
- ragondin
ragondin
12,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raffles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raffles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁafl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raffles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raffles is uncommon French at frequency #87,071 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁafl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de raffle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for raffles in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is raffles, spelled R-A-F-F-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de raffle.
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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