Raoult
\ʁa.u\
The verdict
“Raoult” is uncommon French (frequency #50,459 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,459
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raoult · Raoult · French
Raoult · rank #50,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,459
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raffermir
Nearest frequency peer: raffermir (-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 « Raoult »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pétale
pétale
49,546 corpus weight
- pétée
pétée
49,545 corpus weight
- raffermir
raffermir
49,543 corpus weight
- Raoult
Raoult
49,542 corpus weight
- rating
rating
49,541 corpus weight
- rediffusions
rediffusions
49,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Raoult » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Raoult |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.u\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Raoult » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Raoult is uncommon French at frequency #50,459 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁa.u\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Raoult has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Raoult, spelled R-A-O-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Raoult appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une loi très simple, découverte par le chimiste français Raoult, régit ces abaissements de la température de congélation et se résume en disant que l’abaissement dépend du nombre de molécules dissoutes, mais pas du tout de leur nature.
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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