Raspoutine

\ʁas.pu.tin\

/\ʁas.pu.tin\/ name

The verdict

“Raspoutine” is uncommon French (frequency #52,938 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,938
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Grigori Raspoutine (1869-1916).

Corpus desk

Index FR-raspoutine · Raspoutine · French

Raspoutine · rank #52,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,938
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH radioprotecti…

Nearest frequency peer: radioprotection (-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 « Raspoutine »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Raspoutine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Raspoutine
PropertyValue
HeadwordRaspoutine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ʁas.pu.tin\
Letters10
Frequency rank#52,938
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Raspoutine » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Raspoutinetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « radioprotection » (#52,937), « rectal » (#52,940), « raccordé » (#52,935). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « Raspoutine » est au #52,938. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Raspoutine is uncommon French at frequency #52,938 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁas.pu.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Grigori Raspoutine (1869-1916).".

Zero misspellings are on record for Raspoutine in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Raspoutine, spelled R-A-S-P-O-U-T-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Grigori Raspoutine (1869-1916).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Samedi, 12 septembre [1914]. Raspoutine, guéri de sa blessure, vient de rentrer à Pétrograd. Il a facilement prouvé à l’Impératrice que sa guérison est un témoignage éclatant de la protection divine. Il ne parle de la guerre qu’en termes voilés, ambigus, apocalyptiques ; on en conclut qu’il la désapprouve et qu’il prévoit de grands malheurs.

This word in other languages

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 "Raspoutine"?
"Raspoutine" is spelled R-A-S-P-O-U-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁas.pu.tin\.
What does "Raspoutine" mean?
As a proper noun, "Raspoutine" means: Nom de famille russe, surtout connu pour Grigori Raspoutine (1869-1916).
How do you pronounce "Raspoutine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Raspoutine" is \ʁas.pu.tin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Raspoutine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list