reluire

\ʁə.lɥiʁ\

/\ʁə.lɥiʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“reluire” is uncommon French (frequency #84,238 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,238
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Briller, luire en réfléchissant la lumière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-reluire · reluire · French

reluire · rank #84,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,238
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH reliaient

Nearest frequency peer: reliaient (-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 « reluire »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reluire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for reluire
PropertyValue
Headwordreluire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.lɥiʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#84,238
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « reluire » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).reluiretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « reliaient » (#84,237), « relèverai » (#84,239), « relatait » (#84,236). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « reluire » est au #84,238. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

reluire is uncommon French at frequency #84,238 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.lɥiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for reluire, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is reluire, spelled R-E-L-U-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Briller, luire en réfléchissant la lumière.
  2. 2
    Paraître avec éclat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how reluire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La mer reluisait comme un miroir.
  2. Le soleil dardait d’aplomb, en faisant reluire les gabillots de fer autour des mâts, les plaques du bastingage et la surface de l’eau ; […].

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reluire"?
"reluire" is spelled R-E-L-U-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.lɥiʁ\.
What does "reluire" mean?
As a verb, "reluire" means: Briller, luire en réfléchissant la lumière.
How do you pronounce "reluire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reluire" is \ʁə.lɥiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reluire" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reluire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list