ravins
\ʁa.vɛ̃\
The verdict
“ravins” is uncommon French (frequency #54,834 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,834
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ravin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ravins · ravins · French
ravins · rank #54,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,834
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ravies
Nearest frequency peer: ravies (-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 « ravins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rarissimes
rarissimes
45,170 corpus weight
- ravies
ravies
45,168 corpus weight
- ravins
ravins
45,167 corpus weight
- rayo
rayo
45,166 corpus weight
- rebaptiser
rebaptiser
45,164 corpus weight
- rechutes
rechutes
45,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ravins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ravins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ravins is uncommon French at frequency #54,834 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.vɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ravin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ravins, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ravins, spelled R-A-V-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ravin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ravins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par suite du sol accidenté de cette ile, ces Chevaux ont la corne très solide et le caractère très hardi, aussi sautent-ils comme des Chèvres, à travers les ravins et les macchis.
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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