ravitailler

/\ʁa.vi.ta.je\/ verb

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\.

Key facts for ravitailler
PropertyValue
Headwordravitailler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁa.vi.ta.je\
Letters11
Frequency rank#31,209
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Pourvoir de vivres et de munitions une place, une flotte, une armée, une troupe qui en était démunie.
  2. 2
    D'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)
  3. 3
    Faire des emplettes pour pourvoir à ses besoins.
  4. 4
    Se 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

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ravitailler

Misspelling Variants of "ravitailler"

arvitailler11raivtailler11raviatiller11ravitailelr11ravitailer10ravitaillerr12ravitaillre11ravitaliler11
Misspelling Variants of "ravitailler"

Frequency rank: #31,209 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ravitailler"?
"ravitailler" is spelled R-A-V-I-T-A-I-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.vi.ta.je\.
What does "ravitailler" mean?
As a verb, "ravitailler" means: Pourvoir de vivres et de munitions une place, une flotte, une armée, une troupe qui en était démunie.
What are common misspellings of "ravitailler"?
Common misspellings include "arvitailler", "raivtailler", "raviatiller", "ravitailelr", "ravitailer". The correct spelling is "ravitailler".
How do you pronounce "ravitailler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ravitailler" is \ʁa.vi.ta.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ravitailler" 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.