ratios

/\ʁa.sjo\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,674

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

ratios is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de ratio. Pronounced \ʁa.sjo\. Often confused with rats and rios.

Key facts for ratios
PropertyValue
Headwordratios
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.sjo\
Letters6
Frequency rank#35,674
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ratios is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.sjo\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,674 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de ratio.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ratios, with forms such as "raitos", "ratioss", and "ratiso". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "rats", "rios", "ravis", 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 ratios, spelled R-A-T-I-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de ratio.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: raitos,ratioss,ratiso,rattios,rratios,rtaios

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ratios

Misspelling Variants of "ratios"

raitos6ratioss7ratiso6rattios7rratios7rtaios6
Misspelling Variants of "ratios"

Frequency rank: #35,674 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ratios"?
"ratios" is spelled R-A-T-I-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.sjo\.
What does "ratios" mean?
As a noun, "ratios" means: Pluriel de ratio.
What words are commonly confused with "ratios"?
"ratios" is commonly confused with "rats", "rios", "ravis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ratios"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ratios" is \ʁa.sjo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ratios" come from?
"ratios" 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.