raison
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#259
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
raison is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté intellectuelle par laquelle l’homme connaît, juge et se conduit ; entendement. Pronounced \ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. It ranks #259 in French word frequency. Often confused with rayon and ramon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raison is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #259 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for raison, with forms such as "arison", "raiosn", and "raisno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "rayon", "ramon", "raton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is raison, spelled R-A-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faculté intellectuelle par laquelle l’homme connaît, juge et se conduit ; entendement.
- 2Ensemble de principes philosophiques de la connaissance ou de l'action
- 3Faculté de raisonner, d’établir des démonstrations, d’administrer des preuves.
- 4Le bon sens, le bon usage de la raison, la sagesse, la justesse d’esprit.
- 5Ce qui est de devoir, de droit, d’équité, de justice.
- 6Réparation d’un outrage, d’un affront.
- 7Preuve par discours, par argument.
- 8Sujet ; cause ; motif.
- 9Titres et prétentions qu’une personne peut avoir. On l’emploie principalement dans ces phrases :
- 10Dénomination d’une société par les noms des associés, énoncés de la manière prévue par l’acte d’association pour signer toutes les pièces commerciales.
- 11La part d’un associé dans le fonds d’une société de commerce.
- 12Différence ou quotient de deux termes consécutifs, dans une progression arithmétique ou géométrique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arison,raiosn,raisno,raisonn,raisson,rasion,riason,rraison
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for raison
Misspelling Variants of "raison"
Frequency rank: #259 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: