rar
\raːʁ\
The verdict
“rar” is uncommon French (frequency #62,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,570
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rar · rar · French
rar · rank #62,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,570
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ratage
Nearest frequency peer: ratage (+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 « rar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rangoon
Rangoon
37,434 corpus weight
- rao
rao
37,433 corpus weight
- rar
rar
37,431 corpus weight
- ratage
ratage
37,430 corpus weight
- rayonnantes
rayonnantes
37,429 corpus weight
- recevraient
recevraient
37,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \raːʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rar is uncommon French at frequency #62,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \raːʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rare.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rar, spelled R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Rare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Schwalbenschwanz ist ein rarer Schmetterling.
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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