RATP
\ɛ.ʁa.te.pe\
The verdict
“RATP” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,546
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise française publique qui gère le métro parisien et divers autres transports urbains (autobus, tramway, RER) à Paris et dans sa banlieue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratp · RATP · French
RATP · rank #9,546 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,546
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rappelez
Nearest frequency peer: rappelez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « RATP »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quotidiens
quotidiens
90,457 corpus weight
- rappelez
rappelez
90,456 corpus weight
- RATP
RATP
90,455 corpus weight
- recourir
recourir
90,454 corpus weight
- recyclage
recyclage
90,453 corpus weight
- registres
registres
90,452 corpus weight
What this shows « RATP » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | RATP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁa.te.pe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « RATP »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around RATP (IPA \ɛ.ʁa.te.pe\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,546 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Entreprise française publique qui gère le métro parisien et divers autres transports urbains (autobus, tramway, RER) à Paris et dans sa banlieue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for RATP, with forms such as "artp", "ratpp", and "rattp". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ray", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is RATP, spelled R-A-T-P.
Definition
- 1Entreprise française publique qui gère le métro parisien et divers autres transports urbains (autobus, tramway, RER) à Paris et dans sa banlieue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how RATP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Catherine Guillouard, la PDG de la RATP, va quitter ses fonctions, « pour raisons personnelles », ont annoncé, jeudi, le gouvernement et l’entreprise publique.
Selon nos informations, entre vendredi soir et lundi matin, des malfaiteurs ont volé pas moins de 7 tonnes de cuivre dans un entrepôt de la RATP, à Sucy-en-Brie (Val-de-Marne).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artp
- ratpp
- rattp
- rratp
- rtap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of RATP - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).