regency
\ɹiːd͡ʒənsi\
The verdict
“regency” is uncommon French (frequency #81,490 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,490
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Régence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regency · regency · French
regency · rank #81,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,490
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Reichenbach
Nearest frequency peer: Reichenbach (+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 « regency »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recouvrez
recouvrez
18,516 corpus weight
- redemandé
redemandé
18,515 corpus weight
- redescendue
redescendue
18,514 corpus weight
- regency
regency
18,511 corpus weight
- Reichenbach
Reichenbach
18,510 corpus weight
- reliance
reliance
18,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « regency » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regency |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹiːd͡ʒənsi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « regency » en français
Rare enough to double-check
regency is uncommon French at frequency #81,490 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹiːd͡ʒənsi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Régence.".
regency doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is regency, spelled R-E-G-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Régence.
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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