rattrapera

\ʁa.tʁa.pə.ʁa\

/\ʁa.tʁa.pə.ʁa\/ verb

The verdict

“rattrapera” is uncommon French (frequency #55,547 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,547
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de rattraper.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rattrapera · rattrapera · French

rattrapera · rank #55,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,547
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rasent

Nearest frequency peer: rasent (-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 « rattrapera »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rattrapera » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rattrapera
PropertyValue
Headwordrattrapera
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁa.tʁa.pə.ʁa\
Letters10
Frequency rank#55,547
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rattrapera » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rattraperatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « rasent » (#55,546), « recadrage » (#55,548), « rappelaient » (#55,545). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rattrapera » est au #55,547. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rattrapera is uncommon French at frequency #55,547 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.tʁa.pə.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de rattraper.".

Zero misspellings are on record for rattrapera in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 rattrapera, spelled R-A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du futur de rattraper.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Le Brésilien fera don à l’adversaire d’une relance immonde, que Gigio Donnarumma rattrapera dans un premier temps avant de s’incliner devant Miguel Almiron, de passage dans le coin.

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 "rattrapera"?
"rattrapera" is spelled R-A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.tʁa.pə.ʁa\.
What does "rattrapera" mean?
As a verb, "rattrapera" means: Troisième personne du singulier du futur de rattraper.
How do you pronounce "rattrapera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rattrapera" is \ʁa.tʁa.pə.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list