railler
\ʁɑ.je\
The verdict
“railler” is uncommon French (frequency #54,198 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,198
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaisanter quelqu’un ou quelque chose, lui parler ou en parler avec moquerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-railler · railler · French
railler · rank #54,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,198
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rafraîchi
Nearest frequency peer: rafraîchi (-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 « railler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- radins
radins
45,806 corpus weight
- rafraîchi
rafraîchi
45,804 corpus weight
- railler
railler
45,803 corpus weight
- Rajasthan
Rajasthan
45,802 corpus weight
- rampants
rampants
45,801 corpus weight
- ramènerait
ramènerait
45,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « railler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « railler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
railler is uncommon French at frequency #54,198 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɑ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for railler, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is railler, spelled R-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Plaisanter quelqu’un ou quelque chose, lui parler ou en parler avec moquerie.
- 2Badiner, ne pas parler sérieusement.
- 3Se moquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how railler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque époque vit de sa foi ; et son organisation repose sur sa foi. Mais chaque époque a la formidable puissance de railler ce qu’elle croit, ce qu’elle est, et par là de se désorganiser elle-même.
Il accordait à son frère une grande habileté. Selon lui, ce gros garçon endormi ne sommeillait jamais que d’un œil, comme les chats à l’affût devant un trou de souris. Et voilà qu’Eugène passait les soirées entières dans le salon jaune, écoutant religieusement ces grotesques que lui, Aristide, avait si impitoyablement raillés.
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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