rationaliste

\ʁa.sjɔ.na.list\

/\ʁa.sjɔ.na.list\/ adj

The verdict

“rationaliste” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,891
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au rationalisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rationaliste · rationaliste · French

rationaliste · rank #49,891 · 17 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,891
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rapportaient

Nearest frequency peer: rapportaient (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rationaliste »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rationaliste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rationaliste vs rationalité
83% similar
rationaliste vs régionaliste
83% similar
rationaliste vs rationaliser
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rationaliste
PropertyValue
Headwordrationaliste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁa.sjɔ.na.list\
Letters12
Frequency rank#49,891
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rationaliste »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rationalistese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rapportaient » (#49,890), « RAMQ » (#49,889), « rallient » (#49,888). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rationaliste » est au #49,891. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around rationaliste (IPA \ʁa.sjɔ.na.list\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,891 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for rationaliste, with forms such as "artionaliste", "raitonaliste", and "ratinoaliste". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "rationalité", "régionaliste", "rationaliser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 rationaliste, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui appartient au rationalisme.
  2. 2
    De celui, de celle qui professe le rationalisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il existe en Hollande depuis quelques années un parti rationaliste, qui grandit de jour en jour. Ce parti ne proclame aucun système, puisqu'il les résume tous ; il n'exclut personne puisqu'il ne demande de ses membres que l'amour de la vérité et de la justice, que le désir d'être utile au progrès intellectuel et moral de l'homme et de la société.
  2. Nous le découvrirons en observant les deux grands trésors culturels qui ont façonné l’humanité blanche : ses traditions religieuses, outrancièrement irrationnelles, et la pensée hellène outrancièrement rationaliste.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • artionaliste
  • raitonaliste
  • ratinoaliste
  • ratioanliste
  • rationailste
  • rationaliset
  • rationalisste
  • rationalistte
  • rationalitse
  • rationalliste
  • rationalsite
  • rationlaiste
  • rationnaliste
  • ratoinaliste
  • rattionaliste
  • rrationaliste
  • rtaionaliste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rationaliste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

artionaliste2raitonaliste2ratinoaliste2ratioanliste2rationailste2rationaliset2rationalisste1rationalistte1
Edit distance from "rationaliste"

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 "rationaliste"?
"rationaliste" is spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.sjɔ.na.list\.
What does "rationaliste" mean?
As an adjective, "rationaliste" means: Qui appartient au rationalisme.
What words are commonly confused with "rationaliste"?
"rationaliste" is commonly confused with "rationalité", "régionaliste", "rationaliser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rationaliste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rationaliste" is \ʁa.sjɔ.na.list\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rationaliste" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list