raide
\ʁɛd\
The verdict
“raide” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #13,455 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #13,455
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est très tendu et qui a de la peine à ployer.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raide” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raide is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛd\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,455 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for raide, with forms such as "radie", "raidde", and "raied". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rie", "rire", "rare", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is raide, spelled R-A-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est très tendu et qui a de la peine à ployer.
- 2Ce qui manque ou paraît manquer de souplesse, de grâce.
- 3Qui est inflexible, opiniâtre, dur.
- 4Qui a une pente difficile à monter ou à descendre.
- 5Qui a un mouvement rapide et violent, une trajectoire très tendue.
- 6Qui est difficile à admettre, dur à accepter.
- 7Qui est inconvenant.
- 8Fauché, désargenté.
- 9Raide mort.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: radie,raidde,raied,riade,rraide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raide - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “raide”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɛd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “rie” - see the side-by-side comparison. raide vs rie
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.