rike
/ɹaɪk/verb
rike is spelled R-I-K-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, rike means “Pronunciation spelling of like” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rike?
| Letters | 4: R-I-K-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is rike?
Rike appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce rike?
- /ɹaɪk/
Rike has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rike.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rike?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rike.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: kier.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of rike
- rikes present, singular, he/she/it
- riking participle, present
- riked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rike mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
Pronunciation spelling of like.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does rike come from?
Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).