Riegel
/ˈɹiːɡəl/
"riegel" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Riegel” is uncommon English (frequency #95,345 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,345
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Riegel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹiːɡəl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Riegel” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Riegel is uncommon English at frequency #95,345 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɹiːɡəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Riegel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Riegel, spelled R-I-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, a municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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.
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Using “Riegel”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-I-E-G-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.