rage

/\ʁaʒ\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,441

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maladie (nommée aussi hydrophobie) dont sont affectés les chiens, plus rarement les loups et les chats, et qui peut se communiquer aux autres animaux et même à l’être humain ; caractérisée par le b... Pronounced \ʁaʒ\. It ranks #4,441 in French word frequency. Often confused with Re and RG.

Key facts for rage
PropertyValue
Headwordrage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁaʒ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,441
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rage is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,441 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rage, with forms such as "arge", "raeg", and "ragge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "RG", "rue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rage, spelled R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maladie (nommée aussi hydrophobie) dont sont affectés les chiens, plus rarement les loups et les chats, et qui peut se communiquer aux autres animaux et même à l’être humain ; caractérisée par le besoin de mordre, par des convulsions et par une salivation propre à inoculer la maladie.
  2. 2
    Crise douloureuse.
  3. 3
    Excès dans l’action.
  4. 4
    Violent transport de dépit, de colère, de haine, de cruauté, etc.
  5. 5
    Violente passion ; penchant outré ; goût excessif.
  6. 6
    Diminutif de ragequit.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arge,raeg,ragge,rgae,rrage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rage

Misspelling Variants of "rage"

arge4raeg4ragge5rgae4rrage5
Misspelling Variants of "rage"

Frequency rank: #4,441 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rage"?
"rage" is spelled R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁaʒ\.
What does "rage" mean?
As a noun, "rage" means: Maladie (nommée aussi hydrophobie) dont sont affectés les chiens, plus rarement les loups et les chats, et qui peut se communiquer aux autres animaux et même à l’être humain ; caractérisée par le b...
What words are commonly confused with "rage"?
"rage" is commonly confused with "Re", "RG", "rue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rage" is \ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rage" come from?
"rage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.