raw
\ɹɔː\
The verdict
“raw” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,006) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,006
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cru.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raw · raw · French
raw · rank #24,006 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,006
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rattachés
Nearest frequency peer: rattachés (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « raw »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- raies
raies
75,998 corpus weight
- rapprochés
rapprochés
75,997 corpus weight
- rattachés
rattachés
75,996 corpus weight
- raw
raw
75,995 corpus weight
- rayer
rayer
75,994 corpus weight
- rejoignant
rejoignant
75,993 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « raw » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɹɔː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « raw »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for raw is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɹɔː\. Frequency #24,006 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
raw doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is raw, spelled R-A-W.
Definition
- 1Cru.
- 2Brut.
- 3Saignant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Steak tartare is served raw.
Before we build it, we need to purchase the raw materials.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "raw", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).