ratait
\ʁa.tɛ\
The verdict
“ratait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,323 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,323
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratait · ratait · French
ratait · rank #74,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,323
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raréfie
Nearest frequency peer: raréfie (-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 « ratait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rania
Rania
25,681 corpus weight
- raréfie
raréfie
25,679 corpus weight
- ratait
ratait
25,678 corpus weight
- ratissé
ratissé
25,677 corpus weight
- ravitailleur
ravitailleur
25,676 corpus weight
- recrutez
recrutez
25,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ratait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ratait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ratait is uncommon French at frequency #74,323 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rater.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ratait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 ratait, spelled R-A-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rater.
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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