ragga
\ʁa.ɡa\
The verdict
“ragga” is uncommon French (frequency #85,191 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,191
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical apparu dans les années 1980 en Jamaïque, dérivé du dancehall, caractérisé par une prédominance de l’instrumentation électronique et de l’utilisation de samplers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ragga · ragga · French
ragga · rank #85,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,191
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rafraîchie
Nearest frequency peer: rafraîchie (-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 « ragga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- radiofréque…
radiofréquence
14,813 corpus weight
- Rafal
Rafal
14,812 corpus weight
- rafraîchie
rafraîchie
14,811 corpus weight
- ragga
ragga
14,810 corpus weight
- rajoutera
rajoutera
14,809 corpus weight
- ramier
ramier
14,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ragga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ragga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ragga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ragga is uncommon French at frequency #85,191 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre musical apparu dans les années 1980 en Jamaïque, dérivé du dancehall, caractérisé par une prédominance de l’instrumentation électronique et de l’utilisation de samplers.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ragga, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ragga, spelled R-A-G-G-A.
Definition
- 1Genre musical apparu dans les années 1980 en Jamaïque, dérivé du dancehall, caractérisé par une prédominance de l’instrumentation électronique et de l’utilisation de samplers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ragga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En seconde partie de soirée, c’est le groupe Nadamas qui présentera sa musique festive et populaire, qui puise autant dans le bal musette que dans le ragga, le ska ou même le klezmer.
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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