râle
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,052
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
râle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bruit rauque produit par la respiration quand elle est embarrassée, particulièrement chez les agonisants. Pronounced \ʁal\. Often confused with Re and RL.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for râle is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,052 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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, 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 râle, spelled R-Â-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rale,rlâe,rrâle,râel,râlle,ârle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for râle
Misspelling Variants of "râle"
Frequency rank: #18,052 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: