ratio

/\ʁa.sjo\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,607

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ratio is aFrenchnoun. It means: Proportion entre deux valeurs de même nature. Pronounced \ʁa.sjo\. It ranks #8,607 in French word frequency. Often confused with rio and ravi.

Key facts for ratio
PropertyValue
Headwordratio
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.sjo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,607
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ratio in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ratio is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.sjo\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,607 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ratio, with forms such as "artio", "raito", and "ratoi". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rio", "ravi", "rats", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ratio, spelled R-A-T-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Proportion entre deux valeurs de même nature.
  2. 2
    Coefficient de deux comptes ou groupes de comptes tirés du bilan ou du compte de résultat.
  3. 3
    Sur Twitter, désigne une réponse à un message qui est plus populaire, a plus d’approbations (likes) et de retweet, que le message initial (le ratio du nombre d’approbations étant en faveur de la réponse).
  4. 4
    Désigne le rapport de proportionnalité entre la longueur et la hauteur d’un drapeau, d’un pavillon. Elle s’expriment sous la forme h:L (où L représente la longueur et h la hauteur). Les dimensions de 2:3 sont appliquées au drapeau français.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: artio,raito,ratoi,rattio,rratio,rtaio

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ratio

Misspelling Variants of "ratio"

artio5raito5ratoi5rattio6rratio6rtaio5
Misspelling Variants of "ratio"

Frequency rank: #8,607 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ratio"?
"ratio" is spelled R-A-T-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.sjo\.
What does "ratio" mean?
As a noun, "ratio" means: Proportion entre deux valeurs de même nature.
What words are commonly confused with "ratio"?
"ratio" is commonly confused with "rio", "ravi", "rats". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ratio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ratio" is \ʁa.sjo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ratio" come from?
"ratio" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.