Ramsar
\ʁam.saʁ\
The verdict
“Ramsar” is uncommon French (frequency #79,661 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,661
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du nord de l’Iran.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ramsar · Ramsar · French
Ramsar · rank #79,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,661
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rainville
Nearest frequency peer: Rainville (-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 « Ramsar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raconterez
raconterez
20,342 corpus weight
- Rainville
Rainville
20,341 corpus weight
- Ramsar
Ramsar
20,340 corpus weight
- rassasiée
rassasiée
20,339 corpus weight
- ratings
ratings
20,338 corpus weight
- Raynald
Raynald
20,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ramsar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ramsar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁam.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ramsar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ramsar is uncommon French at frequency #79,661 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁam.saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Ramsar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ramsar, spelled R-A-M-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Ville du nord de l’Iran.
- 2Convention sur la protection des zones humides signée dans cette ville en 1971.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ramsar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La très grande majorité des sites Ramsar français ont été créés sur des aires déjà protégées en totalité ou en partie par d’autres statuts (Parc naturel régional, réserve de chasse, sites du Conservatoire du littoral, sites Natura 2000, etc.) ou disposant d’une gestion intégrée.
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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