raide
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,455
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
raide is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est très tendu et qui a de la peine à ployer. Pronounced \ʁɛd\. Often confused with rie and rire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁɛd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raide is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for raide, with forms such as "radie", "raidde", and "raied". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is raide, spelled R-A-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for raide
Misspelling Variants of "raide"
Frequency rank: #13,455 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: