râlait
\ʁa.lɛ\
The verdict
“râlait” is uncommon French (frequency #89,109 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,109
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de râler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ralait · râlait · French
râlait · rank #89,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,109
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réactualiser
Nearest frequency peer: réactualiser (+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 « râlait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ruffalo
Ruffalo
10,896 corpus weight
- ruta
ruta
10,895 corpus weight
- râlait
râlait
10,892 corpus weight
- réactualiser
réactualiser
10,891 corpus weight
- réanimateur
réanimateur
10,890 corpus weight
- récapitulant
récapitulant
10,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « râlait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | râlait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « râlait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
râlait is uncommon French at frequency #89,109 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de râler.".
râlait has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 râlait, spelled R-Â-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de râler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how râlait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui, étouffait, râlait déjà ; tandis qu’elle, la bouche libre, suppliait éperdument qu’on se hâtât, épouvantée, le cœur arraché, à sentir qu’elle le tuait.
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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