Réau
\ʁe.o\
The verdict
“Réau” is uncommon French (frequency #88,055 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,055
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reau · Réau · French
Réau · rank #88,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,055
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH râper
Nearest frequency peer: râper (-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 « Réau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ruisseler
ruisseler
11,949 corpus weight
- râper
râper
11,947 corpus weight
- Réau
Réau
11,946 corpus weight
- récapitulat…
récapitulatifs
11,945 corpus weight
- réfléchirait
réfléchirait
11,944 corpus weight
- réimpressio…
réimpressions
11,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Réau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Réau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.o\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Réau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Réau is uncommon French at frequency #88,055 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁe.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.".
Réau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Réau, spelled R-É-A-U.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Réau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès qu’elle apprit l’évasion en hélicoptère du braqueur Rédoine Faïd, dimanche 1ᵉʳ juillet, la garde des Sceaux, Nicole Belloubet, s’est précipitée à la prison de Réau (Seine-et-Marne).
Le cliché a été pris quatre-vingt-treize jours après son évasion en hélicoptère de la prison de Réau (Seine-et-Marne).
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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