rape
\ʁap\
The verdict
“rape” is uncommon French (frequency #51,694 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,694
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de raper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rape · rape · French
rape · rank #51,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,694
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rameur
Nearest frequency peer: rameur (-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 « rape »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rameur
rameur
48,308 corpus weight
- rape
rape
48,307 corpus weight
- rebords
rebords
48,306 corpus weight
- recensant
recensant
48,305 corpus weight
- reform
reform
48,302 corpus weight
- regretterai
regretterai
48,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rape » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁap\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rape » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rape is uncommon French at frequency #51,694 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rape, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 rape, spelled R-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de raper.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de raper.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de raper.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de raper.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de raper.
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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