regula
\re.ˈɡu.la\
The verdict
“regula” is uncommon French (frequency #88,025 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,025
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Régulier, de règle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regula · regula · French
regula · rank #88,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remariés
Nearest frequency peer: remariés (+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 « regula »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recondition…
reconditionnés
11,980 corpus weight
- recourbe
recourbe
11,979 corpus weight
- regula
regula
11,976 corpus weight
- remariés
remariés
11,975 corpus weight
- remobiliser
remobiliser
11,974 corpus weight
- remporteront
remporteront
11,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « regula » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \re.ˈɡu.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « regula » en français
Rare enough to double-check
regula is uncommon French at frequency #88,025 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \re.ˈɡu.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Régulier, de règle.".
regula has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is regula, spelled R-E-G-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Régulier, de règle.
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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