rancart
\ʁɑ̃.kaʁ\
The verdict
“rancart” is uncommon French (frequency #70,993 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,993
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renseignement confidentiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rancart · rancart · French
rancart · rank #70,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,993
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ralliée
Nearest frequency peer: ralliée (-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 « rancart »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raggi
raggi
29,011 corpus weight
- rallia
rallia
29,010 corpus weight
- ralliée
ralliée
29,009 corpus weight
- rancart
rancart
29,008 corpus weight
- rapporterai
rapporterai
29,007 corpus weight
- rassasiés
rassasiés
29,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rancart » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rancart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rancart » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rancart is uncommon French at frequency #70,993 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rancart has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rancart, spelled R-A-N-C-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Renseignement confidentiel.
- 2Rebut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rancart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après les rancarts le type est seulabre [seul].
À cette époque, les Valenciennois n’étaient point riches en hommes illustres. Depuis qu’ils en ont toute une bande, ils ont démoli la tour de maître Jean du Gogué et mis sa statue au rancart : à tort, selon moi.
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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