reiki
\ʁɛj.ki\
The verdict
“reiki” is uncommon French (frequency #75,151 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,151
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méthode de soins orientale utilisant l’apposition des mains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reiki · reiki · French
reiki · rank #75,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,151
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regagna
Nearest frequency peer: regagna (-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 « reiki »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rectifiée
rectifiée
24,853 corpus weight
- redressent
redressent
24,852 corpus weight
- regagna
regagna
24,851 corpus weight
- reiki
reiki
24,850 corpus weight
- remaniées
remaniées
24,849 corpus weight
- remuent
remuent
24,847 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reiki » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reiki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛj.ki\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reiki » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reiki is uncommon French at frequency #75,151 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛj.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Méthode de soins orientale utilisant l’apposition des mains.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reiki in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 reiki, spelled R-E-I-K-I.
Definition
- 1Méthode de soins orientale utilisant l’apposition des mains.
This word in other languages
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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