rareté

\ʁaʁ.te\

/\ʁaʁ.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“rareté” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,716
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité des choses qui sont en petit nombre, en petite quantité ; il est opposé à abondance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rarete · rareté · French

rareté · rank #16,716 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,716
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rapprochent

Nearest frequency peer: rapprochent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rareté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rareté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rareté vs raté
67% similar
rareté vs ratée
50% similar
rareté vs rasée
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rareté
PropertyValue
Headwordrareté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁaʁ.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#16,716
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rareté »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).raretése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rapprochent » (#16,715), « rasoir » (#16,717), « rajouté » (#16,714). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rareté » est au #16,716. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around rareté (IPA \ʁaʁ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,716 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rareté, with forms such as "arreté", "raerté", and "rarete". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "raté", "ratée", "rasée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rareté, spelled R-A-R-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité des choses qui sont en petit nombre, en petite quantité ; il est opposé à abondance.
  2. 2
    Chose qui se trouve difficilement.
  3. 3
    Ce qui est peu fréquent, peu commun.
  4. 4
    Quasi absence.
  5. 5
    Objet rare, singulier ou curieux.
  6. 6
    État de ce qui est rare, par opposition à densité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rareté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En France, les maternités manquent de tout. De sages-femmes tout d'abord, dont la part travaillant dans les établissements hospitaliers est en baisse constante depuis plusieurs années. […] Mais aussi de pédiatres, d'anesthésistes ou de gynécologues-obstétriciens, dont la rareté provoque de nombreuses fermetures intempestives de plateaux techniques sur tou…
  2. Il y eut grande rareté de vin cette année-là.

This word in other languages

scarcity(English)rareza(Español)Rarität(Deutsch)raridade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arreté
  • raerté
  • rarete
  • raretté
  • rareét
  • rarreté
  • rarteé
  • rraeté
  • rrareté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rareté - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

arreté2raerté2rarete1raretté1rareét2rarreté1rarteé2rraeté2
Edit distance from "rareté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rareté"?
"rareté" is spelled R-A-R-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁaʁ.te\.
What does "rareté" mean?
As a noun, "rareté" means: Qualité des choses qui sont en petit nombre, en petite quantité ; il est opposé à abondance.
What words are commonly confused with "rareté"?
"rareté" is commonly confused with "raté", "ratée", "rasée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rareté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rareté" is \ʁaʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rareté" come from?
"rareté" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rareté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rasoir#16,717queens#16,712reculé#16,720pignon#16,703

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Roumaine9 variantsSartre9 variantssignez9 variantssonger9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list