rasta
\ʁa.sta\
The verdict
“rasta” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,963. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,963
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diminutif de rastaquouère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rasta · rasta · French
rasta · rank #39,963 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,963
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapprochait
Nearest frequency peer: rapprochait (-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 « rasta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- radicalité
radicalité
60,041 corpus weight
- raideur
raideur
60,040 corpus weight
- rapprochait
rapprochait
60,039 corpus weight
- rasta
rasta
60,038 corpus weight
- reader
reader
60,036 corpus weight
- recadrer
recadrer
60,035 corpus weight
What this shows « rasta » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rasta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.sta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rasta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rasta (IPA \ʁa.sta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,963 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Diminutif de rastaquouère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rasta, with forms such as "arsta", "rasat", and "rassta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rat", "raté", "rats", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rasta, spelled R-A-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Diminutif de rastaquouère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rasta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de rasta, rien de ces portugaises bariolées comme des perroquets.
À ce point de vue le personnel se divisait en deux catégories : d’une part ceux qui faisaient des différences entre les clients, plus sensibles au pourboire raisonnable d’un vieux noble (d’ailleurs en mesure de leur éviter 28 jours en les recommandant au général de Beautreillis) qu’aux largesses inconsidérées d’un rasta qui décelait par là même un manque…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arsta
- rasat
- rassta
- rastta
- ratsa
- rrasta
- rsata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rasta - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).