ramassis
\ʁa.ma.si\
The verdict
“ramassis” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,274. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,274
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblage de choses, de personnes disparates et de peu de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramassis · ramassis · French
ramassis · rank #34,274 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,274
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rayée
Nearest frequency peer: rayée (+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 « ramassis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quarterback
quarterback
65,729 corpus weight
- ramassis
ramassis
65,727 corpus weight
- rayée
rayée
65,726 corpus weight
- recompositi…
recomposition
65,725 corpus weight
- reconvertir
reconvertir
65,724 corpus weight
- rectum
rectum
65,723 corpus weight
What this shows « ramassis » 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 | ramassis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.ma.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ramassis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ramassis (IPA \ʁa.ma.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,274 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Assemblage de choses, de personnes disparates et de peu de valeur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ramassis, with forms such as "armassis", "raamssis", and "ramasis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ramassé", "ramasser", "ramassés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ramassis, spelled R-A-M-A-S-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de choses, de personnes disparates et de peu de valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ramassis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; comment avez-vous eu l’audace de vous présenter parmi nous à la tête d’un ramassis de brigands ?
Ramassis de soldats errants, de détachements sans chefs, de volontaires vagabonds, mal équipés, mal nourris — et le plus souvent, pas nourris du tout, — sans cohésion, sans discipline, chacun ne songeant qu’à soi, et poussés par un sentiment unique d’implacable, de féroce égoïsme ; celui-ci, coiffé d’un bonnet de police, celui-là, la tête entortillée d’un…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- armassis
- raamssis
- ramasis
- ramasiss
- ramassiss
- ramasssi
- rammassis
- ramsasis
- rmaassis
- rramassis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ramassis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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