REB
\ɛ.ʁø.be\
The verdict
“REB” is uncommon French (frequency #67,823 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,823
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de réacteur à eau bouillante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reb · REB · French
REB · rank #67,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,823
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rappellerons
Nearest frequency peer: rappellerons (-2 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 « REB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raifort
raifort
32,183 corpus weight
- rappellerais
rappellerais
32,181 corpus weight
- rappellerons
rappellerons
32,180 corpus weight
- REB
REB
32,178 corpus weight
- recht
recht
32,175 corpus weight
- recorder
recorder
32,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « REB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | REB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁø.be\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « REB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
REB is uncommon French at frequency #67,823 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.ʁø.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for REB, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 REB, spelled R-E-B.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de réacteur à eau bouillante.
- 2Risque épidémique et biologique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how REB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pression primaire de fonctionnement d'un REB est sensiblement moitié moindre que celle d'un REP (typiquement 70 à 80 bar, comparé à 155 à 160 bar). La température de fonctionnement d'un REB est inférieure de 25 à 30 °C par rapport à celle d'un REP au niveau du circuit primaire dans son ensemble.
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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