rehab
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
- rediffuser
rediffuser
9,889 corpus weight
- regno
regno
9,888 corpus weight
- regroupaient
regroupaient
9,887 corpus weight
- rehab
rehab
9,886 corpus weight
- Rehn
Rehn
9,885 corpus weight
- rejoindrai
rejoindrai
9,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rehab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rehab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rehab » en français
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
- 1Cure de désintoxication.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rehab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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