rage
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Maladie (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.
- 2Crise douloureuse.
- 3Excès dans l’action.
- 4Violent transport de dépit, de colère, de haine, de cruauté, etc.
- 5Violente passion ; penchant outré ; goût excessif.
- 6Diminutif de ragequit.
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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"
Frequency rank: #4,441 in French
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