rapide
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,275
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
rapide is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se meut avec vitesse. Pronounced \ʁa.pid\. It ranks #1,275 in French word frequency. Often confused with ravie and rigide.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁa.pid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rapide is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.pid\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,275 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for rapide, with forms such as "arpide", "raipde", and "rapdie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "ravie", "rigide", "rapides", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rapide, spelled R-A-P-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se meut avec vitesse.
- 2Qui se fait avec vitesse.
- 3Très incliné.
- 4Qui comprend, qui agit avec rapidité.
- 5Animé, vif, entrainant.
- 6Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
- 7Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
- 8Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
- 9Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arpide,raipde,rapdie,rapidde,rapied,rappide,rpaide,rrapide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rapide
Misspelling Variants of "rapide"
Frequency rank: #1,275 in French
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