rating

\ʁa.tiŋ\

/\ʁa.tiŋ\/ noun

The verdict

“rating” is uncommon French (frequency #50,460 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,460
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Position sur une échelle, hiérarchie sociale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rating · rating · French

rating · rank #50,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,460
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH Raoult

Nearest frequency peer: Raoult (-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 « rating »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rating » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rating
PropertyValue
Headwordrating
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.tiŋ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#50,460
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rating » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ratingtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Raoult » (#50,459), « raffermir » (#50,458), « rediffusions » (#50,462). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rating » est au #50,460. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rating is uncommon French at frequency #50,460 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.tiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for rating in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 rating, spelled R-A-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Position sur une échelle, hiérarchie sociale.
  2. 2
    Notation, note.
  3. 3
    Évaluation, cotation.
  4. 4
    Classement, cote.
  5. 5
    Dans les courses de plat, valeur attribuée par les handicapeurs à un cheval en fonction de ses performances passées et permettant de classer les participants avant-course, correspondant à une échelle de poids virtuelle, exprimée en kilogrammes ou en livres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ceux même qui prêchent le suffrage viril, le manhood suffrage, en opposition au rating suffrage ou suffrage fondé sur le paiement de l’impôt, attachent cependant cette pleine virilité politique à certaines conditions indispensables. M. Stuart Mill, toujours fidèle à cette idée, que le principal avantage du gouvernement populaire est de servir à l’éducatio…
  2. Le rating des agences de notation.

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 "rating"?
"rating" is spelled R-A-T-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.tiŋ\.
What does "rating" mean?
As a noun, "rating" means: Position sur une échelle, hiérarchie sociale.
How do you pronounce "rating"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rating" is \ʁa.tiŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rating" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list