réjouissance
\ʁe.ʒwi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“réjouissance” is uncommon French (frequency #60,356 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,356
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Démonstration de joie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rejouissance · réjouissance · French
réjouissance · rank #60,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,356
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réjouie
Nearest frequency peer: réjouie (-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 « réjouissance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réinvesti
réinvesti
39,648 corpus weight
- réinvestis
réinvestis
39,647 corpus weight
- réjouie
réjouie
39,646 corpus weight
- réjouissance
réjouissance
39,645 corpus weight
- résistait
résistait
39,644 corpus weight
- rétraction
rétraction
39,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réjouissance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réjouissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ʒwi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réjouissance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réjouissance is uncommon French at frequency #60,356 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ʒwi.sɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for réjouissance in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 réjouissance, spelled R-É-J-O-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Démonstration de joie.
- 2Certaine portion de basse viande, ou plus souvent d’os, qu’on oblige l’acheteur de prendre avec la bonne viande et au même prix.
- 3Petit morceau de pain que le boulanger donnait en plus des achats.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réjouissance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On fit des réjouissances publiques, et il y eut en Flandre une fête comme on n’en avait point vu depuis que le monde est monde.
Mais l'artiste et son auditoire sont infatigables, le concert s’éternise, et nous devons fournir une bonne étape demain. Aussi, à une heure déjà avancée, je finis par donner le signal de la cessation des réjouissances […].
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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