raft
\ʁaft\
The verdict
“raft” is uncommon French (frequency #89,052 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,052
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Radeau pneumatique utilisé pour faire du rafting.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raft · raft · French
raft · rank #89,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,052
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raidit
Nearest frequency peer: raidit (+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 « raft »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- radiologues
radiologues
10,952 corpus weight
- rado
rado
10,951 corpus weight
- raft
raft
10,949 corpus weight
- raidit
raidit
10,948 corpus weight
- rajoutées
rajoutées
10,947 corpus weight
- rationner
rationner
10,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raft » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaft\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raft » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raft is uncommon French at frequency #89,052 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁaft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Radeau pneumatique utilisé pour faire du rafting.".
Zero misspellings are on record for raft in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is raft, spelled R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Radeau pneumatique utilisé pour faire du rafting.
This word in other languages
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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