ravauder
\ʁa.vo.de\
The verdict
“ravauder” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raccommoder, rapiécer, repriser à l’aiguille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ravauder · ravauder · French
ravauder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravauder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.vo.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ravauder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ravauder is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.vo.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ravauder has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ravauder, spelled R-A-V-A-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Raccommoder, rapiécer, repriser à l’aiguille.
- 2Ruminer, ressasser mentalement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ravauder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis qu’il trottine à ses malades, elle reste à ravauder des chaussettes.
Il avait fallu en outre ravauder à gros points le linon déchiré et même troué par les ongles d’Angelo, qui, pendant le voyage et faute de ciseaux, les avait portés fort longs.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.