Ramallah
\ʁa.ma.la\
The verdict
“Ramallah” is uncommon French (frequency #54,827 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,827
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale administrative de l'Autorité palestinienne, située dans la zone de collines du centre de la Cisjordanie, à environ 15 km au nord de Jérusalem.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramallah · Ramallah · French
Ramallah · rank #54,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,827
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ralentissant
Nearest frequency peer: ralentissant (-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 « Ramallah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quittance
quittance
45,177 corpus weight
- radeaux
radeaux
45,176 corpus weight
- ralentissant
ralentissant
45,175 corpus weight
- Ramallah
Ramallah
45,174 corpus weight
- ramassant
ramassant
45,173 corpus weight
- ramassées
ramassées
45,172 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ramallah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ramallah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.ma.la\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ramallah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ramallah is uncommon French at frequency #54,827 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁa.ma.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale administrative de l'Autorité palestinienne, située dans la zone de collines du centre de la Cisjordanie, à environ 15 km au nord de Jérusalem.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ramallah in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ramallah, spelled R-A-M-A-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Capitale administrative de l'Autorité palestinienne, située dans la zone de collines du centre de la Cisjordanie, à environ 15 km au nord de Jérusalem.
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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