rapine
\ʁa.pin\
The verdict
“rapine” is uncommon French (frequency #98,418 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,418
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de ravir quelque chose par violence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapine · rapine · French
rapine · rank #98,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,418
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapetissé
Nearest frequency peer: rapetissé (-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 « rapine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ramette
ramette
1,587 corpus weight
- rapetissé
rapetissé
1,584 corpus weight
- rapine
rapine
1,583 corpus weight
- rappellerez
rappellerez
1,582 corpus weight
- rasse
rasse
1,581 corpus weight
- rattraperai
rattraperai
1,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rapine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.pin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapine is uncommon French at frequency #98,418 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.pin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rapine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 rapine, spelled R-A-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Action de ravir quelque chose par violence.
- 2Pillage, vol et concussion.
- 3Ce qui est volé, pillé, etc.
- 4Terrain en pente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mystère de la vie, c’est que chacun veut vivre par la rapine et le meurtre, et qu’il devrait vivre par sa peine.[…]. Tant que chacun cherche à vivre aux dépens du prochain, la paix sera impossible.
Les pirates des prairies eux-mêmes, gens de sac et de corde, rebut de la civilisation, qui ne vivent que de rapines et d’exactions, n’osaient s’attaquer à lui […].
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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