rats

\ʁa\

/\ʁa\/ noun

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The verdict

“rats” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,022
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rat.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rats · rats · French

rats · rank #8,022 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,022
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rat

Nearest frequency peer: rat (-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 « rats »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rats » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rats vs RT
0% similar
rats vs ray
50% similar
rats vs ris
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rats
PropertyValue
Headwordrats
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa\
Letters4
Frequency rank#8,022
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rats »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ratsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rat » (#8,021), « rayonnement » (#8,023), « rappelant » (#8,020). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rats » est au #8,022. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around rats (IPA \ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,022 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de rat.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rats, with forms such as "rast", "ratss", and "ratts". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "ray", "ris", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 rats, spelled R-A-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de rat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Chez 6 rats sur 10, un oedème est apparu, caractéristique de l’action perméabilisante du dextran au niveau des vaisseaux tégumentaires.
  2. Paris abriterait un à trois rats pour chaque habitant, soit de deux à six millions de rats, concentrés dans les égouts.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rast
  • ratss
  • ratts
  • rrats
  • rtas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rats - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rast2ratss1ratts1rrats1rtas2
Edit distance from "rats"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rats"?
"rats" is spelled R-A-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa\.
What does "rats" mean?
As a noun, "rats" means: Pluriel de rat.
What words are commonly confused with "rats"?
"rats" is commonly confused with "RT", "ray", "ris". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rats"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rats" is \ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rats" come from?
"rats" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rats", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list