ravalement
\ʁa.val.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ravalement” is uncommon French (frequency #52,301 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,301
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travail qu’on fait à un mur, à une façade, etc., lorsque, après les avoir élevés, on les crépit de haut en bas ; résultat de ce travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ravalement · ravalement · French
ravalement · rank #52,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,301
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rambarde
Nearest frequency peer: rambarde (-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 « ravalement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quinquagéna…
quinquagénaire
47,705 corpus weight
- quintal
quintal
47,704 corpus weight
- rageur
rageur
47,702 corpus weight
- rambarde
rambarde
47,701 corpus weight
- ravalement
ravalement
47,700 corpus weight
- recording
recording
47,697 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ravalement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravalement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.val.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ravalement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ravalement is uncommon French at frequency #52,301 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.val.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ravalement, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ravalement, spelled R-A-V-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Travail qu’on fait à un mur, à une façade, etc., lorsque, après les avoir élevés, on les crépit de haut en bas ; résultat de ce travail.
- 2Nettoyage extérieur d’une construction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ravalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire le ravalement d’un mur.
Le ravalement de cette maison est de plâtre.
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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