rat
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,021
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rongeur à museau pointu, à pattes courtes et à queue longue, qui ronge et mange les grains, la paille, etc. Pronounced \ʁa\. It ranks #8,021 in French word frequency. Often confused with Re and Rh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rat is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,021 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 rat 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 rat, spelled R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rongeur à museau pointu, à pattes courtes et à queue longue, qui ronge et mange les grains, la paille, etc.
- 2Rat de cave ; agent des services fiscaux.
- 3Élève de l'école de danse de l'Opéra de Paris.
- 4Individu radin.
- 5Malfaçon ou défaut d’une serrure dont le ressort ne joue pas.
- 6Racaille.
- 7Petit hématome, épanchement sanguin sous-cutané ou sous unguéal, consécutif à un choc ou un pincement. ^([4])
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Frequency rank: #8,021 in French
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