randonner
\ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne\
The verdict
“randonner” is uncommon French (frequency #83,305 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,305
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire de la randonnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-randonner · randonner · French
randonner · rank #83,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rasade
Nearest frequency peer: rasade (+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 « randonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rafraîchis
rafraîchis
16,699 corpus weight
- raisonnant
raisonnant
16,698 corpus weight
- randonner
randonner
16,696 corpus weight
- rasade
rasade
16,695 corpus weight
- rationalist…
rationalistes
16,694 corpus weight
- Rault
Rault
16,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « randonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | randonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « randonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
randonner is uncommon French at frequency #83,305 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.dɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire de la randonnée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for randonner, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is randonner, spelled R-A-N-D-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire de la randonnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how randonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette maison n’est pas la résidence secondaire de l’un d’entre nous : on nous l’a prêtée. Et nous nous y sommes installés avant l’annonce du confinement, qui nous a pris de court alors que nous randonnions.
Ils vont passer une journée à randonner, sans doute pratique l'escalade, crampons et sacs à dos patientent sur le siège arrière du véhicule.
This word in other languages
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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