Reims
\ʁɛ̃s\
The verdict
“Reims” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,603
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reims · Reims · French
Reims · rank #5,603 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,603
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recommandatio…
Nearest frequency peer: recommandations (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Reims »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ranger
ranger
94,401 corpus weight
- rechercher
rechercher
94,400 corpus weight
- recommandat…
recommandations
94,399 corpus weight
- Reims
Reims
94,398 corpus weight
- reviennent
reviennent
94,397 corpus weight
- Roland
Roland
94,396 corpus weight
What this shows « Reims » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Reims |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Reims »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Reims (IPA \ʁɛ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,603 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Reims, with forms such as "erims", "reimms", and "reimss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ris", "res", "rim", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Reims, spelled R-E-I-M-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Reims appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis né dans un village près de Reims et je me nomme Cupidonnet. Dès mon enfance, j’aimais les jolies filles.
[…] Hilperik, profitant de l’absence de son frère Sighebert, qui guerroyait en Germanie, attaqua Reims à l’improviste, et s’empara de cette ville, ainsi que de plusieurs autres également à sa portée.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erims
- reimms
- reimss
- reism
- riems
- rreims
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Reims - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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