rap
\ʁap\
The verdict
“rap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,913) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,913
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style de chanson appartenant au mouvement culturel hip-hop apparu au début des années 1970 aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rap · rap · French
rap · rank #5,913 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,913
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racine
Nearest frequency peer: racine (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rap »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- provoqué
provoqué
94,092 corpus weight
- prêter
prêter
94,091 corpus weight
- racine
racine
94,089 corpus weight
- rap
rap
94,088 corpus weight
- refusent
refusent
94,086 corpus weight
- renaissance
renaissance
94,085 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rap » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rap »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rap is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁap\. Frequency #5,913 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Style de chanson appartenant au mouvement culturel hip-hop apparu au début des années 1970 aux États-Unis.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rap, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rap, spelled R-A-P.
Definition
- 1Style de chanson appartenant au mouvement culturel hip-hop apparu au début des années 1970 aux États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Totalement incapable de respecter une mélodie, il ânonnait une sorte de rap qui ne tombait jamais en place et qui soit n’arrivait pas au bout, soit dépassait le nombre de mesures prévu.
Faisant preuve d’une maturité certaine, il colore ses titres de rap ou de musette.
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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