ravisé
\ra.vi.ze\
The verdict
“ravisé” is uncommon French (frequency #82,394 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,394
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est né tardivement dans une famille, en parlant d’un enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ravise · ravisé · French
ravisé · rank #82,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,394
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ransomware
Nearest frequency peer: ransomware (-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 « ravisé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rafraîchiss…
rafraîchissantes
17,611 corpus weight
- ransomware
ransomware
17,608 corpus weight
- ravisé
ravisé
17,607 corpus weight
- realm
realm
17,606 corpus weight
- rechargez
rechargez
17,605 corpus weight
- recommendat…
recommendations
17,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ravisé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ra.vi.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ravisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ravisé is uncommon French at frequency #82,394 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ra.vi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est né tardivement dans une famille, en parlant d’un enfant.".
ravisé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ravisé, spelled R-A-V-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est né tardivement dans une famille, en parlant d’un enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ravisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dont il a eu deux enfants ; Sophie, née le 5 décembre 1885, et Astolphe, né le Ier décembre 1901, un petit ravisé.
Et mes oncles, mes tantes en avaient tellement soupé de la famille nombreuse que je suis entourée de cousins uniques. Moi aussi je le suis, unique, et ravisée en plus, nom que l’on donne à une espèce particulière d’enfants nés d’un vieux désir, d’un changement d’avis de parents qui n’en voulaient pas ou plus.
Synonyms
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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