rag
\ʁaɡ\
The verdict
“rag” is uncommon French (frequency #66,273 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,273
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de musique, caractérisée par la syncopation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rag · rag · French
rag · rank #66,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,273
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raise
Nearest frequency peer: raise (+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 « rag »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- racinaire
racinaire
33,731 corpus weight
- racoleur
racoleur
33,730 corpus weight
- rag
rag
33,728 corpus weight
- raise
raise
33,727 corpus weight
- rangea
rangea
33,726 corpus weight
- ransom
ransom
33,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rag » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rag » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rag is uncommon French at frequency #66,273 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁaɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rag, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rag, spelled R-A-G.
Definition
- 1Sorte de musique, caractérisée par la syncopation.
- 2Danse pratiquée sur un air de ragtime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là-bas, le matelot de service sur le canot amarré sifflotait un vieux rag américain dont les motifs se perdaient dans la brise.
Synonyms
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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