raise
\ʁɛz\
The verdict
“raise” is uncommon French (frequency #66,274 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,274
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite ruelle sur l'Île de Ré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raise · raise · French
raise · rank #66,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,274
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rag
Nearest frequency peer: rag (-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 « raise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- racinaire
racinaire
33,731 corpus weight
- racoleur
racoleur
33,730 corpus weight
- rag
rag
33,728 corpus weight
- raise
raise
33,727 corpus weight
- rangea
rangea
33,726 corpus weight
- ransom
ransom
33,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raise is uncommon French at frequency #66,274 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite ruelle sur l'Île de Ré.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for raise, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is raise, spelled R-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Petite ruelle sur l'Île de Ré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how raise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Raise", c’est un sillon, une voie d’homme entre deux vignes, « venelle », c’est une veine, une petite voie rapide.
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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