realm
\rɛlm\
The verdict
“realm” is uncommon French (frequency #82,395 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,395
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Royaume.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | realm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rɛlm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “realm” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
realm is uncommon French at frequency #82,395 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \rɛlm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for realm, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is realm, spelled R-E-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1Royaume.
- 2Domaine, secteur, branche, registre.
Synonyms
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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Using “realm”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-A-L-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \rɛlm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.