ratée
\ʁa.te\
The verdict
“ratée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,989
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui n’a pas réussi dans une entreprise, dans une démarche, dans sa vie, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratee · ratée · French
ratée · rank #15,989 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,989
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RD
Nearest frequency peer: RD (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ratée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- quitta
quitta
84,015 corpus weight
- quittera
quittera
84,014 corpus weight
- ratée
ratée
84,012 corpus weight
- RD
RD
84,011 corpus weight
- rechange
rechange
84,010 corpus weight
- refais
refais
84,009 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ratée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ratée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “ratée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ratée (IPA \ʁa.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,989 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui n’a pas réussi dans une entreprise, dans une démarche, dans sa vie, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ratée, with forms such as "artée", "ratee", and "rateé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rte", "rats", "RATP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is ratée, spelled R-A-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui n’a pas réussi dans une entreprise, dans une démarche, dans sa vie, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ratée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On veut lui faire croire que c’est une ratée, une bonne à rien, un numéro.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artée
- ratee
- rateé
- rattée
- raéte
- rratée
- rtaée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ratée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ratée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "ratée". Here's where to go from here.
- "ratée" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "rte". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,989 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
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.