RDA
\ɛʁ.de.a\
The verdict
“RDA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,335) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,335
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - République démocratique allemande (1949-1990).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rda · RDA · French
RDA · rank #23,335 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,335
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapprochant
Nearest frequency peer: rapprochant (-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 « RDA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Rand
Rand
76,669 corpus weight
- rapportait
rapportait
76,668 corpus weight
- rapprochant
rapprochant
76,667 corpus weight
- RDA
RDA
76,666 corpus weight
- recherchez
recherchez
76,665 corpus weight
- recouvertes
recouvertes
76,664 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « RDA » 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 | RDA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.de.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « RDA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for RDA is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛʁ.de.a\. Frequency #23,335 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "République démocratique allemande (1949-1990).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for RDA, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is RDA, spelled R-D-A.
Definition
- 1République démocratique allemande (1949-1990).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how RDA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant le Troisième Reich je n’ai pas pu exercer ma profession parce que je sympathisais avec les communistes, je suis donc parti à l’étranger mais plus tard, en RDA, les choses se sont arrangées pour moi et ma famille.
Synonyms
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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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