réjouissance
\ʁe.ʒwi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“réjouissance” is uncommon French (frequency #60,356 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,356
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Démonstration de joie.
| 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) |
Where “réjouissance” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
réjouissance is uncommon French at frequency #60,356 among 507,453 “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.
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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Using “réjouissance”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-É-J-O-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.