rigamarole

noun

rigamarole is a noun meaning “Alternative form of rigmarole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-G-A-M-A-R-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rigamarole is rigamaroles.

What does rigamarole mean?

noun

1
USAlternative form of rigmarole.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of rigamarole

rigamaroles plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is rigamarole?

Rigamarole appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.

rigamarole0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with rigamarole

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

rigamarole vs rigmarole590 G

Also written: rigmarole.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).