Which to use
“racle” and “rafle” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #48,135
- “racle” frequency rank
- #25,461
- “rafle” frequency rank
- 73596
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | racle | rafle |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Outil servant à racler. | Filet garni d’ailes, possédant des ouvertures à chaque extrémité. |
Where the eye mixes racle and rafle
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. racle and rafle follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: racle vs rafle
A purely visual mix-up. racle (\ʁakl\) and rafle (\ʁɑfl\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - c in “racle” becomes f in “rafle”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
racle is recorded at frequency rank #48,135, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁakl\. rafle is at rank #25,461, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɑfl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 73596, this pair ranks #39,909 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of racle vs rafle
Shared letters: aelr. Private to "racle": c. Private to "rafle": f.
"racle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "rafle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "racle" and "rafle" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "racle" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rafle" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #39,909 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "racle" and "rafle" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "racle vs râles". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #39,909 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.