ratisser
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,563
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
ratisser is aFrenchverb. It means: Nettoyer à l’aide du râteau. Pronounced \ʁa.ti.se\. Often confused with ravisseur and ramasser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.ti.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ratisser is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.ti.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,563 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for ratisser, with forms such as "artisser", "raitsser", and "ratiser". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ravisseur", "ramasser", "ratifier", 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 ratisser, spelled R-A-T-I-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer à l’aide du râteau.
- 2Ôter, emporter, en raclant, la surface de quelque chose ou ce qui s’y est attaché.
- 3Pénétrer comme les dents d’un râteau.
- 4Quadriller une zone à la recherche de quelque chose.
- 5Ramasser, voire voler, ce qui est disponible de manière brutale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: artisser,raitsser,ratiser,ratisesr,ratisserr,ratissre,ratsiser,rattisser,rratisser,rtaisser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ratisser
Misspelling Variants of "ratisser"
Frequency rank: #42,563 in French
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