Ratte
\ˈratə\
The verdict
“Ratte” is uncommon French (frequency #99,541 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,541
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rat (animal).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ratte · Ratte · French
Ratte · rank #99,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,541
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rassurons
Nearest frequency peer: rassurons (-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 « Ratte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raidir
raidir
463 corpus weight
- raillant
raillant
462 corpus weight
- rassurons
rassurons
461 corpus weight
- Ratte
Ratte
460 corpus weight
- ravitaillé
ravitaillé
459 corpus weight
- recrutaient
recrutaient
455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ratte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ratte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈratə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ratte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ratte is uncommon French at frequency #99,541 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈratə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rat (animal).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ratte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ratte, spelled R-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Rat (animal).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ratte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Keller saß eine große Ratte.
Am nächsten Tag, dem 17. April, um acht Uhr, hielt der Concierge den vorbeikommenden Arzt an und beschuldigte geschmacklose Spaßmacher, drei tote Ratten mitten in den Flur gelegt zu haben.
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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