rattrapa
\ʁa.tʁa.pa\
The verdict
“rattrapa” is uncommon French (frequency #84,226 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,226
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rattraper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rattrapa · rattrapa · French
rattrapa · rank #84,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,226
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recap
Nearest frequency peer: recap (+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 « rattrapa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rapetisser
rapetisser
15,780 corpus weight
- raréfient
raréfient
15,778 corpus weight
- rattrapa
rattrapa
15,775 corpus weight
- recap
recap
15,774 corpus weight
- recognition
recognition
15,773 corpus weight
- reculade
reculade
15,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rattrapa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rattrapa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.tʁa.pa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rattrapa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rattrapa is uncommon French at frequency #84,226 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.tʁa.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rattraper.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rattrapa, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rattrapa, spelled R-A-T-T-R-A-P-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rattraper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rattrapa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, je tentai de m’esbigner mais l’un des fils Jean-Bon me rattrapa sur la rive droite.
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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