reo
\ˈre.o\
The verdict
“reo” is uncommon French (frequency #86,113 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,113
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accusé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reo · reo · French
reo · rank #86,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,113
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renvoyaient
Nearest frequency peer: renvoyaient (-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 « reo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rencontrera…
rencontrerais
13,891 corpus weight
- renouvela
renouvela
13,890 corpus weight
- renvoyaient
renvoyaient
13,889 corpus weight
- reo
reo
13,888 corpus weight
- reparaître
reparaître
13,887 corpus weight
- repassait
repassait
13,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈre.o\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reo is uncommon French at frequency #86,113 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈre.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
reo has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is reo, spelled R-E-O.
Definition
- 1Accusé.
- 2Coupable, condamné à une peine de justice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Reo de Estado, personne accusée d'un crime contre l'État.
Uno de estos casos, muy ruidoso, fue la ejecución del caballerizo Amada, que mató, al parecer en legítima defensa, a su amo, el marqués de Cañete. Aunque sólo tenía órdenes menores, lo reclamaron las autoridades eclesiásticas con extremado ahínco; desde el cardenal primado, D. Baltasar de Moscoso, hasta el último clerizón, hicieron de esto una cuestión de…
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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