rationner
\ʁa.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“rationner” is uncommon French (frequency #89,055 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,055
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une répartition de vivres, de combustible, à bord d’un navire, dans une place assiégée, etc., afin d’en régler l’usage et de les faire durer plus longtemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rationner · rationner · French
rationner · rank #89,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,055
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rajoutées
Nearest frequency peer: rajoutées (-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 « rationner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raft
raft
10,949 corpus weight
- raidit
raidit
10,948 corpus weight
- rajoutées
rajoutées
10,947 corpus weight
- rationner
rationner
10,946 corpus weight
- rattrapait
rattrapait
10,945 corpus weight
- rattrapper
rattrapper
10,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rationner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rationner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rationner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rationner is uncommon French at frequency #89,055 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.sjɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rationner has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rationner, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une répartition de vivres, de combustible, à bord d’un navire, dans une place assiégée, etc., afin d’en régler l’usage et de les faire durer plus longtemps.
- 2Limiter, réduire sa nourriture, soit par nécessité, soit par régime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rationner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès le début du siège on prit la précaution de rationner les habitants.
Rationner le pain.
This word in other languages
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.
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