régler
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,595
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
régler is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer avec la règle des lignes droites sur du papier, du carton, etc. Pronounced \ʁe.ɡle\. It ranks #2,595 in French word frequency. Often confused with Roger and rêver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡle\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for régler is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ɡle\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,595 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for régler, with forms such as "regler", "rgéler", and "rrégler". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Roger", "rêver", "réglo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is régler, spelled R-É-G-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tirer avec la règle des lignes droites sur du papier, du carton, etc.
- 2Conduire, diriger suivant certaines règles, assujettir à certaines règles.
- 3Mettre dans un bon ordre.
- 4Retrancher de sa dépense, de sa table, etc.
- 5Mettre en état d’aller bien, de marcher régulièrement.
- 6Déterminer, ordonner, décider une chose d’une façon ferme et stable.
- 7Terminer, arrêter, fixer par accord ou par jugement.
- 8Disposer une chose en vue d’un effet déterminé, l’ordonner d’une manière fixe.
- 9Décider devant quels juges les parties procéderont.
- 10Payer.
- 11Servir de règle.
- 12Se conduire d’après l’exemple de quelqu’un, prendre quelqu’un pour modèle.
- 13Se conformer à ce qui a été décidé ou pratiqué relativement à quelque chose.
- 14Se modérer, mettre de l’ordre dans sa vie.
- 15Battre un adversaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: regler,rgéler,rrégler,régelr,réggler,réglerr,régller,réglre,rélger,érgler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for régler
Misspelling Variants of "régler"
Frequency rank: #2,595 in French
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