ravissement

/\ʁa.vis.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#44,674

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ravissement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enlèvement qu’on fait avec violence. Il n’est guère en usage que dans ces locutions : Pronounced \ʁa.vis.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for ravissement
PropertyValue
Headwordravissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.vis.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#44,674
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ravissement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ravissement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.vis.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,674 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for ravissement, with forms such as "arvissement", "raivssement", and "ravisement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ravissement, spelled R-A-V-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Enlèvement qu’on fait avec violence. Il n’est guère en usage que dans ces locutions :
  2. 2
    État de l’âme lorsqu’elle est transportée de joie, d’admiration, etc.
  3. 3
    État d’une âme transportée hors d’elle-même par l’extase.
  4. 4
    Le fait d'être privé de la maîtrise de ses activités conscientes, notamment dans le cadre d'une démarche mystique ou amoureuse. — Note d’usage : Ce terme est assez proche de la notion d'extase.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arvissement,raivssement,ravisement,ravisesment,ravisseemnt,ravissemennt,ravissementt,ravissemetn,ravissemment,ravissemnet,ravissmeent,ravsisement,ravvissement,rravissement,rvaissement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ravissement

Misspelling Variants of "ravissement"

arvissement11raivssement11ravisement10ravisesment11ravisseemnt11ravissemennt12ravissementt12ravissemetn11
Misspelling Variants of "ravissement"

Frequency rank: #44,674 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ravissement"?
"ravissement" is spelled R-A-V-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.vis.mɑ̃\.
What does "ravissement" mean?
As a noun, "ravissement" means: Enlèvement qu’on fait avec violence. Il n’est guère en usage que dans ces locutions :
What are common misspellings of "ravissement"?
Common misspellings include "arvissement", "raivssement", "ravisement", "ravisesment", "ravisseemnt". The correct spelling is "ravissement".
How do you pronounce "ravissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ravissement" is \ʁa.vis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ravissement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.