rapetisser
\ʁap.ti.se\
The verdict
“rapetisser” is uncommon French (frequency #84,221 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,221
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre ou faire paraître plus petit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapetisser · rapetisser · French
rapetisser · rank #84,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,221
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ramus
Nearest frequency peer: ramus (-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 « rapetisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rallonges
rallonges
15,784 corpus weight
- rallongée
rallongée
15,783 corpus weight
- rampage
rampage
15,782 corpus weight
- ramus
ramus
15,781 corpus weight
- rapetisser
rapetisser
15,780 corpus weight
- raréfient
raréfient
15,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rapetisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapetisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁap.ti.se\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapetisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapetisser is uncommon French at frequency #84,221 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁap.ti.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rapetisser in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rapetisser, spelled R-A-P-E-T-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre ou faire paraître plus petit.
- 2Rabaisser.
- 3Devenir plus petit.
- 4Devenir plus petit.
- 5Se donner moins de valeur qu’on n’en a réellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapetisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La France rapetisse, ''rapetisse
Peu d’années lui suffisent pour rapetisser ce qui était grand, grandir ce qui était petit, transporter un personnage du monde réel dans le monde fabuleux.
Synonyms
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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