régulier
\ʁe.ɡy.lje\
The verdict
“régulier” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,809 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #5,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Qui a de la régularité, qui est conforme à des règles, soit naturelles, soit de convention ; qui est constant, uniforme.
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 | régulier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɡy.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “régulier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for régulier is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ɡy.lje\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,809 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for régulier, with forms such as "regulier", "rgéulier", and "rrégulier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "relier", "replier", "résilier", 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 régulier, spelled R-É-G-U-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la régularité, qui est conforme à des règles, soit naturelles, soit de convention ; qui est constant, uniforme.
- 2Qui se conforme avec exactitude aux préceptes de la religion, aux devoirs de la morale.
- 3Qui est exact, ponctuel.
- 4Qui a ses angles, ses côtés égaux ; dont les faces sont des polygones réguliers égaux et dont les angles sont égaux.
- 5Qualifie les verbes qui suivent, dans la formation de leurs temps, les règles générales des conjugaisons.
- 6Qualifie les ordres religieux qui respectent une règle monastique ; ce qui leur appartient ; ce qui leur est propre.
- 7Se dit d’un oligomère ou d’un polymère qui résulte de la répétition d’unités constitutives toutes identiques et reliées entre elles de la même manière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: regulier,rgéulier,rrégulier,réggulier,régluier,réguiler,réguleir,régulierr,régulire,régullier,réuglier,érgulier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of régulier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "régulier"
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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Using “régulier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-É-G-U-L-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁe.ɡy.lje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “relier” - see the side-by-side comparison. régulier vs relier
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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