rehab

noun

The verdict

“rehab” is uncommon French (frequency #90,115 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,115
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cure de désintoxication.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rehab · rehab · French

rehab · rank #90,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,115
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH regroupaient

Nearest frequency peer: regroupaient (-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 « rehab »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rehab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rehab
PropertyValue
Headwordrehab
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#90,115
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rehab » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rehabtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « regroupaient » (#90,114), « Rehn » (#90,116), « regno » (#90,113). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rehab » est au #90,115. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rehab is uncommon French at frequency #90,115 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cure de désintoxication.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rehab, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rehab, spelled R-E-H-A-B.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cure de désintoxication.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how rehab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si les stars nous ont habitués aux passages en rehab pour leurs addictions diverses, celle d’Idris Elba est à première vue moins grave.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rehab"?
"rehab" is spelled R-E-H-A-B.
What does "rehab" mean?
As a noun, "rehab" means: Cure de désintoxication.
What language does "rehab" come from?
"rehab" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rehab", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list