rat de bibliothèque
\ʁa də bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk\
The verdict
“rat de bibliothèque” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui fréquente très souvent les bibliothèques ; personne qui passe son temps à lire et à compulser des ouvrages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rat de bibliothèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa də bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rat de bibliothèque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rat de bibliothèque is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa də bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne qui fréquente très souvent les bibliothèques ; personne qui passe son temps à lire et à compulser des ouvrages.".
rat de bibliothèque doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rat de bibliothèque, spelled R-A-T- -D-E- -B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-È-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui fréquente très souvent les bibliothèques ; personne qui passe son temps à lire et à compulser des ouvrages.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rat de bibliothèque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-T- -D-E- -B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-È-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.