raté
/ˈɹæ.teɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
an unsuccessful person; a failure
adj
(of a person or thing) failed; disappointing
Example Sentences
- "We seem to assist at the terrible soirées where the ratés exhibit their talents (M. Moronval is of course a raté) [...]"
- "Certainly he was a raté, as I’ve heard many declare since his death, but he was a lucid and conscious raté, one who had deliberately chosen this condition."
- "This was nostalgia on the part of an artist raté; in fact, Die Weltbühne was as full of politics and economics in 1926 as it was six years later."
- "We were already notorious — the British honeymoon couple whose marriage was raté before it had begun, the husband who went raving on the beach at night to expiate some terrible shame."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: raté
Inflected Forms
ratés (plural)