ratés

\ʁa.te\

/\ʁa.te\/ adj

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The verdict

“ratés” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,980
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de raté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rates · ratés · French

ratés · rank #16,980 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,980
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rappels

Nearest frequency peer: rappels (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ratés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « ratés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ratés vs res
40% similar
ratés vs RTS
0% similar
ratés vs rte
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ratés
PropertyValue
Headwordratés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁa.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#16,980
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ratés »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ratésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rappels » (#16,979), « rayé » (#16,981), « Reagan » (#16,982). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « ratés » est au #16,980. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around ratés (IPA \ʁa.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,980 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de raté.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ratés, with forms such as "artés", "rates", and "ratsé". 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, "res", "RTS", "rte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ratés, spelled R-A-T-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de raté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ratés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Or, c'est faux : le piano-voix est justement un haut lieu d’arnaque musicale, c’est un truc bien connu des musiciens ratés qui aimeraient bien pécho (même moi, j’le fais !).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • artés
  • rates
  • ratsé
  • rattés
  • ratéss
  • raéts
  • rratés
  • rtaés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ratés - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

artés2rates1ratsé2rattés1ratéss1raéts2rratés1rtaés2
Edit distance from "ratés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ratés"?
"ratés" is spelled R-A-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.te\.
What does "ratés" mean?
As an adjective, "ratés" means: Masculin pluriel de raté.
What words are commonly confused with "ratés"?
"ratés" is commonly confused with "res", "RTS", "rte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ratés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ratés" is \ʁa.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ratés" come from?
"ratés" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ratés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

polar#16,969paume#16,964sauts#17,000Tempo#17,022

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Reagan8 variantssalive8 variantsoffrira8 variantsscellé8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list