ratio
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.sjo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Proportion entre deux valeurs de même nature.
- 2Coefficient de deux comptes ou groupes de comptes tirés du bilan ou du compte de résultat.
- 3Sur 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).
- 4Désigne 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #8,607 in French
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