reform
\ɹɪ.fɒɹm\
The verdict
“reform” is uncommon French (frequency #51,699 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,699
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réforme, transformation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reform · reform · French
reform · rank #51,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,699
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regretterai
Nearest frequency peer: regretterai (+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 « reform »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rebords
rebords
48,306 corpus weight
- recensant
recensant
48,305 corpus weight
- reform
reform
48,302 corpus weight
- regretterai
regretterai
48,301 corpus weight
- relayant
relayant
48,300 corpus weight
- renoué
renoué
48,299 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reform » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reform |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪ.fɒɹm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reform » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reform is uncommon French at frequency #51,699 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪ.fɒɹm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réforme, transformation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reform, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 reform, spelled R-E-F-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1Réforme, transformation.
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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