redwood
\ˈɹɛd.ˌwʊd\
The verdict
“redwood” is uncommon French (frequency #84,233 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,233
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - séquoia sempervirent (l’arbre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-redwood · redwood · French
redwood · rank #84,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,233
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redevenait
Nearest frequency peer: redevenait (-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 « redwood »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reculade
reculade
15,771 corpus weight
- redessinée
redessinée
15,770 corpus weight
- redevenait
redevenait
15,769 corpus weight
- redwood
redwood
15,768 corpus weight
- Reiter
Reiter
15,766 corpus weight
- relatait
relatait
15,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redwood » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redwood |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹɛd.ˌwʊd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « redwood » en français
Rare enough to double-check
redwood is uncommon French at frequency #84,233 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹɛd.ˌwʊd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for redwood in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is redwood, spelled R-E-D-W-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1séquoia sempervirent (l’arbre).
- 2Bois de séquoia sempervirent.
- 3Bois de pin sylvestre.
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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