redingote
\ʁə.dɛ̃.ɡɔt\
The verdict
“redingote” is uncommon French (frequency #71,859 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,859
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manteau d’homme, ou de femme, ample, à longs pans pouvant descendre jusqu’aux chevilles, plus ou moins serré à la taille et ouvert par une fente dans le dos, qui servait à l’origine aux cavaliers e...
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Index FR-redingote · redingote · French
redingote · rank #71,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,859
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redondante
Nearest frequency peer: redondante (+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 « redingote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recensent
recensent
28,144 corpus weight
- redingote
redingote
28,142 corpus weight
- redondante
redondante
28,141 corpus weight
- redonnez
redonnez
28,140 corpus weight
- reggaeton
reggaeton
28,138 corpus weight
- relayent
relayent
28,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redingote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redingote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.dɛ̃.ɡɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « redingote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
redingote is uncommon French at frequency #71,859 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.dɛ̃.ɡɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for redingote in our index, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is redingote, spelled R-E-D-I-N-G-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Manteau d’homme, ou de femme, ample, à longs pans pouvant descendre jusqu’aux chevilles, plus ou moins serré à la taille et ouvert par une fente dans le dos, qui servait à l’origine aux cavaliers et fut adopté pour certains uniformes d’officiers.
- 2A désigné au xixᵉ siècle une longue veste, de ville ou de cérémonie , à revers et fendue dans le bas du dos.
- 3Capote anglaise
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how redingote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La redingote grise de l’empereur Napoléon Iᵉʳ.
La femme, vêtue d'une redingote écarlate, avec revers et collet vert, […].
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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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