ragot
\ʁa.ɡo\
The verdict
“ragot” is uncommon French (frequency #63,279 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,279
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit, rabougri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ragot · ragot · French
ragot · rank #63,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,279
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiant
Nearest frequency peer: radiant (-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 « ragot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quarte
quarte
36,725 corpus weight
- quintes
quintes
36,724 corpus weight
- radiant
radiant
36,723 corpus weight
- ragot
ragot
36,722 corpus weight
- rajoutée
rajoutée
36,721 corpus weight
- Ralf
Ralf
36,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ragot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ragot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ragot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ragot is uncommon French at frequency #63,279 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit, rabougri.".
ragot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ragot, spelled R-A-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Petit, rabougri.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ragot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une femme ragote.
C’était un petit homme gros, ragot, bouffi, trapu, rouge comme une cerise.
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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