rater

to miss (an event or a thing); to screw up; to mess up; to fail to fire; to misfire; to fail

“Il va rater le car.” — He's going to miss the bus.

Emerged in the early 1700s, likely originally in reference to a firearm misfiring, from the expression (1651) prendre un rat (“to misfire”, literally “to get a rat”), from rat (“rat”). More at rat.