ragtime
\ʁaɡ.tajm\
The verdict
“ragtime” is uncommon French (frequency #90,093 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,093
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical précurseur du jazz, caractérisé par la syncopation et apparu aux États-Unis à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ragtime · ragtime · French
ragtime · rank #90,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racoleurs
Nearest frequency peer: racoleurs (-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 « ragtime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Raab
Raab
9,911 corpus weight
- rabattement
rabattement
9,910 corpus weight
- racoleurs
racoleurs
9,909 corpus weight
- ragtime
ragtime
9,908 corpus weight
- Rahm
Rahm
9,907 corpus weight
- Rakka
Rakka
9,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ragtime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ragtime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaɡ.tajm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ragtime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ragtime is uncommon French at frequency #90,093 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁaɡ.tajm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ragtime, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ragtime, spelled R-A-G-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Genre musical précurseur du jazz, caractérisé par la syncopation et apparu aux États-Unis à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
- 2Danse pratiquée sur un air de ragtime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ragtime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu à peu, le ragtime s’étendit de l’accompagnement à la mélodie et, avant que le public blanc se soit rendu compte de ce qui lui arrivait, le ragtime noir avait évincé de la scène les vieilles imitations de minstrels au bouchon brûlé.
"Vous êtes venu chercher d’autres ragtimes ? demanda-t-il d’un ton enjoué alors qu’il se tournait vers la porte en faisant sauter ses clefs dans sa main."
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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