raticide
French, noun/ʁa.ti.sid/
raticide is spelled R-A-T-I-C-I-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raticide is a French masculine noun meaning “rat poison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produit destiné à l'élimination des rats, à la dératisation”.
What does raticide mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerat poison
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui détruit les rats → voir rodenticide et rongicide.
noun: 1. Produit destiné à l'élimination des rats, à la dératisation.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of raticide
- raticides plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce raticide?
- /ʁa.ti.sid/
- \ʁa.ti.sid\
- [ʁa.ti.sid]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is raticide in French?
raticide appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).