rapiner
\ʁa.pi.ne\
The verdict
“rapiner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre injustement, voler, par exemple en abusant des fonctions, de l’emploi, de la commission dont on est chargé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapiner · rapiner · French
rapiner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.pi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rapiner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.pi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prendre injustement, voler, par exemple en abusant des fonctions, de l’emploi, de la commission dont on est chargé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rapiner, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rapiner, spelled R-A-P-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prendre injustement, voler, par exemple en abusant des fonctions, de l’emploi, de la commission dont on est chargé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce valet rapine sur tout ce qu’il achète.
Le cas échéant, on pouvait être sûr qu’il n’hésiterait pas à se fonder sur les plus vieillies coutumes bandas, et à réclamer leur stricte application pour supprimer ceux qui se hasarderaient à rapiner sur ses terres.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.