reu
\ʁy\
The verdict
“reu” is uncommon French (frequency #91,106 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,106
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de ravoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reu · reu · French
reu · rank #91,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,106
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retombait
Nearest frequency peer: retombait (-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 « reu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- respawn
respawn
8,898 corpus weight
- ressorties
ressorties
8,897 corpus weight
- retombait
retombait
8,896 corpus weight
- reu
reu
8,895 corpus weight
- reversent
reversent
8,893 corpus weight
- Rhéa
Rhéa
8,892 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reu is uncommon French at frequency #91,106 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de ravoir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for reu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 reu, spelled R-E-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de ravoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'âne brut. Fallait-il qu'il brût pour qu'on l'ouït ! Gis ! Tu gésiras, tu auras gési... puis tu seras rené. Durant tout l'été, les brebis ont pû dans ma prairie. Cette tache, je la raurai : j'en ai reu de bien pires. J'essayai tout : j'additionnai, soustrus, multipliai, divisai... mais pour réussir enfin, il fallut que j'extrusse une racine carrée.
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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