ratons
\ʁa.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“ratons” is uncommon French (frequency #51,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,074
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de raton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratons · ratons · French
ratons · rank #51,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,074
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raccords
Nearest frequency peer: raccords (-3 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 « ratons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- qualitative…
qualitativement
48,932 corpus weight
- quintus
quintus
48,931 corpus weight
- raccords
raccords
48,930 corpus weight
- ratons
ratons
48,927 corpus weight
- recyclées
recyclées
48,924 corpus weight
- refusais
refusais
48,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ratons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ratons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ratons is uncommon French at frequency #51,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de raton.".
ratons has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ratons, spelled R-A-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de raton.
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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