ratissent
\ʁa.tis\
The verdict
“ratissent” is uncommon French (frequency #94,187 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,187
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ratisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratissent · ratissent · French
ratissent · rank #94,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,187
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rational
Nearest frequency peer: rational (-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 « ratissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rappliquer
rappliquer
5,817 corpus weight
- rational
rational
5,815 corpus weight
- ratissent
ratissent
5,814 corpus weight
- Rauch
Rauch
5,813 corpus weight
- rebellés
rebellés
5,811 corpus weight
- rebutent
rebutent
5,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ratissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.tis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ratissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ratissent is uncommon French at frequency #94,187 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ratissent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ratissent, spelled R-A-T-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ratisser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ratisser.
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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