ral
\ˈrɑːl\
The verdict
“ral” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,491) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,491
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ral · ral · French
ral · rank #39,491 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,491
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rajoutant
Nearest frequency peer: rajoutant (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ral »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rajeunit
rajeunit
60,512 corpus weight
- rajoutant
rajoutant
60,511 corpus weight
- ral
ral
60,510 corpus weight
- rassurent
rassurent
60,509 corpus weight
- ratifiée
ratifiée
60,508 corpus weight
- rauque
rauque
60,507 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ral » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈrɑːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ral »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ral is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈrɑːl\. Frequency #39,491 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rare.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ral in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ral, spelled R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Rare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ral a-walcʼh eo kaout dirazor ur gweled ken ledan, […].
Evit al levrioù e kroateg pe serbeg, n’ eo ket ral a wech e vezont gwerzhet dre gantmilieroù.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).