rait
\ʁɛ\
The verdict
“rait” is uncommon French (frequency #91,078 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,078
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de raire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rait · rait · French
rait · rank #91,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,078
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raffermit
Nearest frequency peer: raffermit (-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 « rait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- racks
racks
8,926 corpus weight
- racoler
racoler
8,925 corpus weight
- raffermit
raffermit
8,924 corpus weight
- rait
rait
8,923 corpus weight
- rajouts
rajouts
8,922 corpus weight
- ralenties
ralenties
8,921 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rait is uncommon French at frequency #91,078 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rait, spelled R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de raire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de raire.
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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