railroad
\ˈɹeɪl.ˌɹoʊd\
The verdict
“railroad” is uncommon French (frequency #56,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,855
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chemin de fer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-railroad · railroad · French
railroad · rank #56,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,855
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiologue
Nearest frequency peer: radiologue (-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 « railroad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Quinet
Quinet
43,151 corpus weight
- quotité
quotité
43,150 corpus weight
- radiologue
radiologue
43,147 corpus weight
- railroad
railroad
43,146 corpus weight
- rapporteure
rapporteure
43,144 corpus weight
- rapprochera
rapprochera
43,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « railroad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | railroad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹeɪl.ˌɹoʊd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « railroad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
railroad is uncommon French at frequency #56,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹeɪl.ˌɹoʊd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for railroad in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is railroad, spelled R-A-I-L-R-O-A-D.
Definition
- 1Chemin de fer.
- 2Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).
Synonyms
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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