râleurs
\ʁa.lœʁ\
The verdict
“râleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #68,629 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,629
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de râleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raleurs · râleurs · French
râleurs · rank #68,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,629
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rumble
Nearest frequency peer: rumble (-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 « râleurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rosy
rosy
31,375 corpus weight
- rumble
rumble
31,373 corpus weight
- râleurs
râleurs
31,372 corpus weight
- râpée
râpée
31,371 corpus weight
- réclamera
réclamera
31,370 corpus weight
- réfutant
réfutant
31,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « râleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | râleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « râleurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
râleurs is uncommon French at frequency #68,629 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de râleur.".
râleurs has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is râleurs, spelled R-Â-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de râleur.
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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