reed
\ˈɹid\
The verdict
“reed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,347) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,347
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reed · reed · French
reed · rank #14,347 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,347
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redresser
Nearest frequency peer: redresser (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « reed »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ralentissem…
ralentissement
85,658 corpus weight
- rangé
rangé
85,657 corpus weight
- redresser
redresser
85,655 corpus weight
- reed
reed
85,654 corpus weight
- regina
regina
85,653 corpus weight
- restreindre
restreindre
85,652 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « reed » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹid\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « reed »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for reed is neighbouring look-alikes ("rue", "RER", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈɹid\. Frequency #14,347 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for reed, with forms such as "ered", "rede", and "reedd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "RER", "rex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is reed, spelled R-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1Roseau.
- 2Roseau.
- 3Roseau.
- 4Roseau.
- 5Personne faible ou influençable.
- 6Anche (pièce vibrante de certains instruments à vent).
- 7Lame souple d’un interrupteur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ered
- rede
- reedd
- rreed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).