reille
The verdict
“reille” is uncommon French (frequency #82,401 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,401
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bardeau, poutrelle, tringle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reille · reille · French
reille · rank #82,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,401
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regum
Nearest frequency peer: regum (-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 « reille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- recommendat…
recommendations
17,604 corpus weight
- recuit
recuit
17,603 corpus weight
- regum
regum
17,601 corpus weight
- reille
reille
17,600 corpus weight
- relooker
relooker
17,597 corpus weight
- relèveront
relèveront
17,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reille is uncommon French at frequency #82,401 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for reille in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is reille, spelled R-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bardeau, poutrelle, tringle.
- 2Rang, rangée.
- 3Règles, menstrues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est un areau de bonne reille, mais il est de manie mauvaise : griffant les champs du voisinage, il tourne la terre emblavée.
L’ancien français utilisait vers le XIIe siècle le terme de « reille » [pour désigner les règles], qui signifie ais, bardeau (bête qui porte le bas), barre pour fermer la porte comme une barre pour fermer toute possibilité de rapport sexuel.
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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