rat
French, noun/ʁa/
rat is spelled R-A-T (3 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rat is a French masculine noun meaning “rat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rongeur à museau pointu, à pattes courtes et à queue longue, qui ronge et mange les grains, la paille, etc”.
What does rat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerat
- 2
informalmasculinesweetheart
- 3
masculinescrooge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rongeur à museau pointu, à pattes courtes et à queue longue, qui ronge et mange les grains, la paille, etc. 2. Rat de cave ; agent des services fiscaux. 3. Élève de l'école de danse de l'Opéra de Paris. 4. Individu radin.
adjective: 1. Qui est radin, avare.
noun: 1. Personne née durant l’année du Rat.
noun: 1. Milieu de culture pour une levure, Candida albicans, pathogène pour l’humain.
noun: 1. Réserve de l’armée territoriale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rat
- rats plural
- rate feminine
- rates plural feminine
- Rats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rat?
- /ʁa/
- \ʁa\
- \ʁɑ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rat in French?
rat appears 7.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).