Reiter
The verdict
“Reiter” is uncommon French (frequency #84,235 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,235
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille allemand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reiter · Reiter · French
Reiter · rank #84,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,235
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relatait
Nearest frequency peer: relatait (+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 « Reiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- redevenait
redevenait
15,769 corpus weight
- redwood
redwood
15,768 corpus weight
- Reiter
Reiter
15,766 corpus weight
- relatait
relatait
15,765 corpus weight
- reliaient
reliaient
15,764 corpus weight
- reluire
reluire
15,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Reiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Reiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Reiter is uncommon French at frequency #84,235 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille allemand.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Reiter in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 Reiter, spelled R-E-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille allemand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Reiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme le veut la tradition, le maire de Munich, Dieter Reiter, a donné le coup d’envoi des festivités en perçant à coup de marteau le premier fût de bière.
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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