rareté
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,716
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
rareté is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité des choses qui sont en petit nombre, en petite quantité ; il est opposé à abondance. Pronounced \ʁaʁ.te\. Often confused with raté and ratée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rareté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rareté is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁaʁ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,716 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rareté, with forms such as "arreté", "raerté", and "rarete". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rareté, spelled R-A-R-E-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité des choses qui sont en petit nombre, en petite quantité ; il est opposé à abondance.
- 2Chose qui se trouve difficilement.
- 3Ce qui est peu fréquent, peu commun.
- 4Quasi absence.
- 5Objet rare, singulier ou curieux.
- 6État de ce qui est rare, par opposition à densité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arreté,raerté,rarete,raretté,rareét,rarreté,rarteé,rraeté,rrareté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rareté
Misspelling Variants of "rareté"
Frequency rank: #16,716 in French
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