railler
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,198
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
railler is aFrenchverb. It means: Plaisanter quelqu’un ou quelque chose, lui parler ou en parler avec moquerie. Pronounced \ʁɑ.je\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | railler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for railler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,198 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for railler in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 railler, spelled R-A-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plaisanter quelqu’un ou quelque chose, lui parler ou en parler avec moquerie.
- 2Badiner, ne pas parler sérieusement.
- 3Se moquer.
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Frequency rank: #54,198 in French
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