rapide

/\ʁa.pid\/ adj

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.

Key facts for rapide
PropertyValue
Headwordrapide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁa.pid\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,275
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rapide in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Qui se meut avec vitesse.
  2. 2
    Qui se fait avec vitesse.
  3. 3
    Très incliné.
  4. 4
    Qui comprend, qui agit avec rapidité.
  5. 5
    Animé, vif, entrainant.
  6. 6
    Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
  7. 7
    Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
  8. 8
    Qualifie une cadence de jeu où le temps de réflexion de chaque joueur est réduit.
  9. 9
    Qualifie 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"

arpide6raipde6rapdie6rapidde7rapied6rappide7rpaide6rrapide7
Misspelling Variants of "rapide"

Frequency rank: #1,275 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rapide"?
"rapide" is spelled R-A-P-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.pid\.
What does "rapide" mean?
As an adj, "rapide" means: Qui se meut avec vitesse.
What words are commonly confused with "rapide"?
"rapide" is commonly confused with "ravie", "rigide", "rapides". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rapide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rapide" is \ʁa.pid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rapide" come from?
"rapide" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.