reluire
\ʁə.lɥiʁ\
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
- Reiter
Reiter
15,766 corpus weight
- relatait
relatait
15,765 corpus weight
- reliaient
reliaient
15,764 corpus weight
- reluire
reluire
15,763 corpus weight
- relèverai
relèverai
15,762 corpus weight
- remigration
remigration
15,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reluire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reluire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reluire » en français
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
- 1Briller, luire en réfléchissant la lumière.
- 2Paraître avec éclat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reluire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mer reluisait comme un miroir.
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.
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