ratiboiser
\ʁa.ti.bwa.ze\
The verdict
“ratiboiser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre à quelqu’un ; escroquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratiboiser · ratiboiser · French
ratiboiser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratiboiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.ti.bwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ratiboiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ratiboiser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.ti.bwa.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
ratiboiser has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 ratiboiser, spelled R-A-T-I-B-O-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prendre à quelqu’un ; escroquer.
- 2Ruiner ; liquider.
- 3Couper à ras.
- 4Terminer, vider, liquider.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ratiboiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le patron du chalutier avait rapporté, mettons, cent kilos de poisson, on lui en ratiboisait trente, on lui en réglait soixante-dix.
Les deux vrais faux génies ricanèrent. Oh, pas longtemps ! Les deux vrais faux jumeaux les ratiboisèrent sur-le-champ.
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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.