rafting
\ʁaf.tiŋ\
The verdict
“rafting” is uncommon French (frequency #56,205 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,205
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport nautique qui consiste à descendre des cours d’eau comportant des rapides à bord d’un raft.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rafting · rafting · French
rafting · rank #56,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,205
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raccourcissem…
Nearest frequency peer: raccourcissement (-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 « rafting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quiches
quiches
43,800 corpus weight
- raccourciss…
raccourcissement
43,797 corpus weight
- rafting
rafting
43,796 corpus weight
- rajout
rajout
43,794 corpus weight
- rancho
rancho
43,793 corpus weight
- rapprocha
rapprocha
43,792 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rafting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rafting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaf.tiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rafting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rafting is uncommon French at frequency #56,205 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁaf.tiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rafting doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rafting, spelled R-A-F-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Sport nautique qui consiste à descendre des cours d’eau comportant des rapides à bord d’un raft.
- 2Synonyme de raft.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rafting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sillonnées de somptueuses rivières aux eaux vertes – et froides ! –, les montagnes Rocheuses recèlent des centaines de sites pour la pratique des sports nautiques, et du rafting en particulier.
Accompagnés des cris des novices et des ordres des moniteurs, canoës, kayaks et autres raftings passaient à ses pieds, défiant l’écume et les courants.
Synonyms
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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