ravitailler
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,209
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ravitailler is aFrenchverb. It means: Pourvoir de vivres et de munitions une place, une flotte, une armée, une troupe qui en était démunie. Pronounced \ʁa.vi.ta.je\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravitailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.vi.ta.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ravitailler is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.vi.ta.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,209 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 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for ravitailler, with forms such as "arvitailler", "raivtailler", and "raviatiller". 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 ravitailler, spelled R-A-V-I-T-A-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pourvoir de vivres et de munitions une place, une flotte, une armée, une troupe qui en était démunie.
- 2D'autre part, Wynmalen a dû s'arrêter à Launois-sur-Vence pour être ravitaillé, puis dut atterrir de nouveau à Montigny sur route, à dix kilomètres de Metz. Il ne repartira que ce matin. — (Le Circuit européen - La première étape : Paris-Liège, dans L'Aurore : littéraire, artistique, sociale, 15ᵉ année, n° 4966 du lundi 19 juin 1911, p. 2)
- 3Faire des emplettes pour pourvoir à ses besoins.
- 4Se pourvoir de vivres, faire ses emplettes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arvitailler,raivtailler,raviatiller,ravitailelr,ravitailer,ravitaillerr,ravitaillre,ravitaliler,ravitialler,ravittailler,ravtiailler,ravvitailler,rravitailler,rvaitailler
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ravitailler
Misspelling Variants of "ravitailler"
Frequency rank: #31,209 in French
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Nearby French words
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