ranson
French, noun
ranson is spelled R-A-N-S-O-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ranson is a French feminine noun meaning “alternative form of rançon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does ranson mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of rançon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of ranson
- ransons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ranson in French?
ranson appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
ranson0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Frenchmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).