rauque
\ʁok\
The verdict
“rauque” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,494
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pour une voix, rude, âpre et comme enrouée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rauque · rauque · French
rauque · rank #39,494 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,494
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ratifiée
Nearest frequency peer: ratifiée (-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 « rauque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ral
ral
60,510 corpus weight
- rassurent
rassurent
60,509 corpus weight
- ratifiée
ratifiée
60,508 corpus weight
- rauque
rauque
60,507 corpus weight
- rectitude
rectitude
60,506 corpus weight
- regrettez
regrettez
60,505 corpus weight
What this shows « rauque » 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 | rauque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁok\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rauque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rauque (IPA \ʁok\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,494 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pour une voix, rude, âpre et comme enrouée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rauque, with forms such as "aruque", "raquue", and "rauqeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "roque", "risqué", "Raquel", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rauque, spelled R-A-U-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pour une voix, rude, âpre et comme enrouée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rauque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces carnassiers se montraient fort agressifs, et, réunis par bandes autour du fort, ils remplissaient l’air de leurs rauques aboiements.
Il étudia, consciencieusement, la langue rauque et chantante dont, tout de suite, il avait aimé l’accent, dont il avait saisi l’harmonie […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aruque
- raquue
- rauqeu
- rauqque
- rauuqe
- rrauque
- ruaque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rauque - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).