raz
\ʁa\
The verdict
“raz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,750) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,750
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courant marin violent qui se fait sentir dans un détroit, dans un canal entre deux terres rapprochées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raz · raz · French
raz · rank #21,750 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,750
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapatriement
Nearest frequency peer: rapatriement (-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 « raz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rando
rando
78,254 corpus weight
- rangement
rangement
78,253 corpus weight
- rapatriement
rapatriement
78,252 corpus weight
- raz
raz
78,251 corpus weight
- ready
ready
78,250 corpus weight
- redémarrer
redémarrer
78,249 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « raz » 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 | raz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « raz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for raz is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁa\. Frequency #21,750 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for raz in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is raz, spelled R-A-Z.
Definition
- 1Courant marin violent qui se fait sentir dans un détroit, dans un canal entre deux terres rapprochées.
- 2Détroit au courant rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how raz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré le calme, nous sommes terriblement secoués par le raz, et la mer par gros temps doit être affreuse ici.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).