râle
\ʁal\
The verdict
“râle” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,052
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit rauque produit par la respiration quand elle est embarrassée, particulièrement chez les agonisants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rale · râle · French
râle · rank #18,052 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,052
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rustique
Nearest frequency peer: rustique (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « râle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rover
rover
81,952 corpus weight
- royauté
royauté
81,951 corpus weight
- rustique
rustique
81,950 corpus weight
- râle
râle
81,949 corpus weight
- rémunératio…
rémunérations
81,948 corpus weight
- républiques
républiques
81,947 corpus weight
What this shows « râle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | râle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « râle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around râle (IPA \ʁal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,052 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for râle, with forms such as "rale", "rlâe", and "rrâle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "RL", "rue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is râle, spelled R-Â-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bruit rauque produit par la respiration quand elle est embarrassée, particulièrement chez les agonisants.
- 2Bruit anormal que l’on perçoit, à l’auscultation, dans les voies respiratoires et ce quel qu’en soit la cause.
- 3Son, cri évoquant ce bruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how râle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] il y eut un silence funèbre entre ces trois hommes, silence interrompu seulement par le râle sourd du mourant, dont l’agonie commençait.
Déjà, les premiers râles s’étaient organisés et je ne pouvais respirer qu’en soulevant de ma poitrine un poids grinçant qui tendait à m’enfoncer, tandis que, tels ces jouets de caoutchouc, je m’entendais produire des sons aigus et pitoyables : quelque chose de plaintif, d’assoiffé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rale
- rlâe
- rrâle
- râel
- râlle
- ârle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of râle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).