rapière
\ʁa.pjɛʁ\
The verdict
“rapière” is an uncommon French word, ranked #90,099 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #90,099
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Épée longue et fine, à garde filiforme ou hémisphérique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rapière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rapière is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.pjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #90,099 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rapière, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rapière, spelled R-A-P-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Épée longue et fine, à garde filiforme ou hémisphérique.
- 2Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Cette arme est plus présente en héraldique espagnole qu’en française. Elle se distingue de l’épée par la finesse de sa lame. À rapprocher de badelaire, coutelas, couteau, cimeterre, épée, kriss et sabre.
- 3Couteau (en tant qu’arme).
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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Using “rapière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-P-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁa.pjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.