raser
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,233
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
raser is aFrenchverb. It means: Tondre, couper le poil ou les cheveux tout près de la peau avec un rasoir. Pronounced \ʁɑ.ze\. Often confused with RER and RSE.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raser is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,233 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for raser, with forms such as "arser", "raesr", and "raserr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RER", "RSE", "rose", 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 raser, spelled R-A-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tondre, couper le poil ou les cheveux tout près de la peau avec un rasoir.
- 2Couper le poil de la barbe au plus près de la peau.
- 3Abattre à ras de terre, en parlant d’un édifice ou d’un bâtiment.
- 4Ôter à un navire la partie supérieure de ses œuvres mortes.
- 5Passer tout près ; effleurer.
- 6Ne presque plus marquer; la cavité des incisives ne paraissant plus, ou presque plus.
- 7Ennuyer par des propos longs et oiseux.
- 8Enlever, soustraire.
- 9Se dit d’une perdrix ou d’un lièvre qui se tapit le plus qu’il peut contre terre pour se cacher. Se dit aussi du chasseur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arser,raesr,raserr,rasre,rasser,rraser,rsaer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for raser
Misspelling Variants of "raser"
Frequency rank: #12,233 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: