reliquaires
\ʁə.li.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“reliquaires” is uncommon French (frequency #67,833 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,833
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de reliquaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reliquaires · reliquaires · French
reliquaires · rank #67,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,833
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rehaussés
Nearest frequency peer: rehaussés (-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 « reliquaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- regia
regia
32,171 corpus weight
- registraire
registraire
32,170 corpus weight
- rehaussés
rehaussés
32,169 corpus weight
- reliquaires
reliquaires
32,168 corpus weight
- renforçait
renforçait
32,167 corpus weight
- renient
renient
32,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reliquaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reliquaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.li.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reliquaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reliquaires is uncommon French at frequency #67,833 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.li.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de reliquaire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reliquaires, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is reliquaires, spelled R-E-L-I-Q-U-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de reliquaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reliquaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les reliquaires sont souvent en or.
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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