ramsvsraséWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: rams is a noun, rasé is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“rams” is a noun and “rasé” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,550
“rams” frequency rank
#14,778
“rasé” frequency rank
62328
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rams rasé
Definition Jeu de cartes qui se joue à trois, quatre ou cinq joueurs, avec un jeu de trente-deux cartes, et qui consiste à se débarrasser le premier des cinq jetons donnés à chacun au départ en faisant cinq levées. Participe passé masculin singulier de raser.

Where the eye mixes rams and rasé

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. rams (CVCC) and rasé (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
rams
4 ch
rasé

Look-alike desk: rams vs rasé

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rams is \ʁam\ while rasé is \ʁa.ze\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62328, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rams is recorded at frequency rank #47,550, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁam\. rasé is at rank #14,778, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.ze\.

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 62328, this pair ranks #87,713 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rams vs rasé

Shared letters: ars. Private to "rams": m. Private to "rasé": é.

"rams" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "rasé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rams ← ramms · ramss · rasm · rmas · rrams

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rams" for "rasé" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rams" is a noun and "rasé" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "rams" or "rasé"?
"rasé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,778 in our French list, against #47,550 for "rams". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "rams" and "rasé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rams" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rasé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #87,713 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rams" and "rasé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rams vs Rhys". 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 #87,713 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list