ras
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,546
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ras is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a le poil très court, coupé tout près de la peau, en parlant d’un être vivant. Pronounced \ʁa\. It ranks #6,546 in French word frequency. Often confused with Re and Rh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ras is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,546 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ras in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", 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 ras, spelled R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a le poil très court, coupé tout près de la peau, en parlant d’un être vivant.
- 2Dont le poil est très court, en parlant de textiles, peaux, etc.
- 3Parfaitement uni, sans creux ni bosse.
- 4Qualifie une campagne plate, unie, qui n’est coupée ni d’éminences, ni de vallées, ni de bois, ni de rivières.
- 5Qui est près du sol.
- 6Qualifie un bâtiment qui est peu élevé au-dessus de l’eau ou dont on a supprimé les mâts.
- 7Qualifie une mesure remplie de manière que le grain, la farine, etc., n’excède pas les bords.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #6,546 in French
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