riband
"riband" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“riband” is uncommon English (frequency #85,711 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,711
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Archaic form of ribbon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-riband · riband · English
riband · rank #85,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,711
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 21,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Rexroth
Nearest frequency peer: Rexroth (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “riband”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- reshoot
reshoot
14,295 corpus weight
- reupload
reupload
14,292 corpus weight
- Rexroth
Rexroth
14,291 corpus weight
- riband
riband
14,290 corpus weight
- Rizzi
Rizzi
14,288 corpus weight
- rlly
rlly
14,287 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “riband” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riband |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “riband” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
riband is uncommon English at frequency #85,711 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for riband, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is riband, spelled R-I-B-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Archaic form of ribbon.
- 2A narrow diminutive of the bend, thinner than a bendlet.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.