redhead
\ˈɹɛd.ˌhɛd\
The verdict
“redhead” is uncommon French (frequency #94,193 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,193
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roux, rousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-redhead · redhead · French
redhead · rank #94,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,193
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redistributif
Nearest frequency peer: redistributif (+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 « redhead »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rebellés
rebellés
5,811 corpus weight
- rebutent
rebutent
5,810 corpus weight
- redhead
redhead
5,808 corpus weight
- redistribut…
redistributif
5,807 corpus weight
- regretta
regretta
5,806 corpus weight
- remémoré
remémoré
5,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redhead » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redhead |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹɛd.ˌhɛd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « redhead » en français
Rare enough to double-check
redhead is uncommon French at frequency #94,193 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹɛd.ˌhɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roux, rousse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for redhead, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is redhead, spelled R-E-D-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Roux, rousse.
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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