rageur
\ʁa.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“rageur” is uncommon French (frequency #52,299 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,299
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’irrite facilement, est sujet à des accès de colère, de violent dépit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rageur · rageur · French
rageur · rank #52,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,299
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rambarde
Nearest frequency peer: rambarde (+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 « rageur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quadragénai…
quadragénaire
47,706 corpus weight
- quinquagéna…
quinquagénaire
47,705 corpus weight
- quintal
quintal
47,704 corpus weight
- rageur
rageur
47,702 corpus weight
- rambarde
rambarde
47,701 corpus weight
- ravalement
ravalement
47,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rageur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rageur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rageur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rageur is uncommon French at frequency #52,299 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.ʒœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rageur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 rageur, spelled R-A-G-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui s’irrite facilement, est sujet à des accès de colère, de violent dépit.
- 2Qui montre de la rage, de la colère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rageur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un enfant rageur.
Il a un caractère rageur.
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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