realm
\rɛlm\
The verdict
“realm” is uncommon French (frequency #82,395 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,395
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Royaume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-realm · realm · French
realm · rank #82,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,395
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ravisé
Nearest frequency peer: ravisé (-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 « realm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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ransomware
17,608 corpus weight
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ravisé
17,607 corpus weight
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realm
17,606 corpus weight
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rechargez
17,605 corpus weight
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recommendations
17,604 corpus weight
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recuit
17,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « realm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « realm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
realm is uncommon French at frequency #82,395 among 5,742 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how realm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]
By the early 1960s modernization theory dominated social science thinking about political and economic development in both academic and political realms.
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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