rancunes
\ʁɑ̃.kyn\
The verdict
“rancunes” is uncommon French (frequency #59,574 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,574
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rancune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rancunes · rancunes · French
rancunes · rank #59,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,574
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rajoutés
Nearest frequency peer: rajoutés (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rancunes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rains
rains
40,430 corpus weight
- rainure
rainure
40,429 corpus weight
- rajoutés
rajoutés
40,428 corpus weight
- rancunes
rancunes
40,427 corpus weight
- rapprochez
rapprochez
40,426 corpus weight
- ravioli
ravioli
40,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rancunes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rancunes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.kyn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rancunes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rancunes is uncommon French at frequency #59,574 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.kyn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rancune.".
rancunes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rancunes, spelled R-A-N-C-U-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rancune.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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