rei
\rej\
The verdict
“rei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,846) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,846
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rei · rei · French
rei · rank #26,846 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,846
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relayée
Nearest frequency peer: relayée (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rei »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- reconstitué
reconstitué
73,158 corpus weight
- recyclé
recyclé
73,157 corpus weight
- rei
rei
73,155 corpus weight
- relayée
relayée
73,154 corpus weight
- reliure
reliure
73,153 corpus weight
- renards
renards
73,152 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rei » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | rei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rej\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rei »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rei is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rh", "RT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \rej\. Frequency #26,846 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Roi.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rei in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rh", "RT", "RP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rei, spelled R-E-I.
Definition
- 1Roi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
uns dels ladruns el escarnie rei Jhesum
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).