râlent
\ʁɑl\
The verdict
“râlent” is uncommon French (frequency #54,867 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,867
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de râler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ralent · râlent · French
râlent · rank #54,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,867
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rusticité
Nearest frequency peer: rusticité (-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 « râlent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roster
roster
45,137 corpus weight
- Ruf
Ruf
45,136 corpus weight
- rusticité
rusticité
45,135 corpus weight
- râlent
râlent
45,134 corpus weight
- réactivation
réactivation
45,133 corpus weight
- réfrigérant
réfrigérant
45,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « râlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | râlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « râlent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
râlent is uncommon French at frequency #54,867 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɑl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
râlent has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is râlent, spelled R-Â-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de râler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de râler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how râlent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Habitué des parodies, le cultivateur a repris le titre phare de Luis Fonsi et Daddy Yankee, à l’attention des personnes « qui râlent, qui disent que les haricots sont trop chers, qu’il n’y en a pas assez ».
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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