rançons
\ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“rançons” is uncommon French (frequency #66,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rançon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rancons · rançons · French
rançons · rank #66,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,278
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ransom
Nearest frequency peer: ransom (-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 « rançons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raise
raise
33,727 corpus weight
- rangea
rangea
33,726 corpus weight
- ransom
ransom
33,724 corpus weight
- rançons
rançons
33,723 corpus weight
- rasa
rasa
33,722 corpus weight
- ratera
ratera
33,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rançons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rançons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rançons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rançons is uncommon French at frequency #66,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rançon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rançons in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rançons, spelled R-A-N-Ç-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rançon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rançons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ports de la Manche et du Pas-de-Calais firent le plus grand nombre de prises de rançons et armèrent la majorité des corsaires.
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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