ravagent
\ʁa.vaʒ\
The verdict
“ravagent” is uncommon French (frequency #57,545 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,545
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ravager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ravagent · ravagent · French
ravagent · rank #57,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconquis
Nearest frequency peer: reconquis (+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 « ravagent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rachmaninov
Rachmaninov
42,461 corpus weight
- rata
rata
42,458 corpus weight
- ravagent
ravagent
42,456 corpus weight
- reconquis
reconquis
42,455 corpus weight
- recoudre
recoudre
42,454 corpus weight
- recyclée
recyclée
42,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ravagent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravagent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ravagent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ravagent is uncommon French at frequency #57,545 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.vaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ravagent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ravagent, spelled R-A-V-A-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ravager.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ravager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ravagent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un avion bombardier d’eau s’est écrasé mardi sur l’île d’Eubée, près d’Athènes, en Grèce en luttant contre l’un des incendies qui ravagent le pays.
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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