rainette
\ʁɛ.nɛt\
The verdict
“rainette” is uncommon French (frequency #72,661 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,661
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des espèces de petites grenouilles vertes (ou d'autres couleurs), souvent arboricoles, de la famille des Hylidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rainette · rainette · French
rainette · rank #72,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,661
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raines
Nearest frequency peer: raines (-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 « rainette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Radegonde
Radegonde
27,343 corpus weight
- raines
raines
27,341 corpus weight
- rainette
rainette
27,340 corpus weight
- rajouterais
rajouterais
27,339 corpus weight
- ramènerai
ramènerai
27,338 corpus weight
- rangeait
rangeait
27,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rainette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rainette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rainette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rainette is uncommon French at frequency #72,661 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rainette in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rainette, spelled R-A-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de petites grenouilles vertes (ou d'autres couleurs), souvent arboricoles, de la famille des Hylidés.
- 2Outil de charpentier à pointe recourbée pour tracer des lignes ou encore pour redonner de la voie aux dents de scies.
- 3Nom populaire de différentes variétés de pommes d’hiver à peau grisâtre ou tachetée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rainette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous suivions le bord d’un canal où l’eau des pluies nourrissait les rainettes.
J'effraye Michal comme on effraye une cousine en Normandie, avec l'aide d'une rainette, d'une araignée.
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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