raillerie
\ʁɑj.ʁi\
The verdict
“raillerie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,317 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,317
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de railler ; plaisanterie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raillerie · raillerie · French
raillerie · rank #74,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,317
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rajah
Nearest frequency peer: rajah (+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 « raillerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- QWERTY
QWERTY
25,690 corpus weight
- radicalisent
radicalisent
25,686 corpus weight
- raillerie
raillerie
25,684 corpus weight
- rajah
rajah
25,683 corpus weight
- Rania
Rania
25,681 corpus weight
- raréfie
raréfie
25,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raillerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raillerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑj.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raillerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raillerie is uncommon French at frequency #74,317 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑj.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de railler ; plaisanterie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for raillerie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is raillerie, spelled R-A-I-L-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de railler ; plaisanterie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raillerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux théologiens, je ferais peut-être bien de n’en rien dire: il n’est pas prudent de toucher ni de remuer ce qui sent mauvais. Ce sont des gens qui n’entendent pas raillerie, et qui prennent feu pour une bagatelle.
Quand on l'eut trouvé dans la foule des électeurs du palatinat de Sandomir, qu'on l'eut mis sur un char, traîné au milieu des comices, salué de génuflexions et de houras unanimes, il ne douta point que ce ne fût une raillerie, et que ses concitoyens ne se jouassent de lui.
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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