Reverdy
The verdict
“Reverdy” is uncommon French (frequency #71,878 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,878
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reverdy · Reverdy · French
Reverdy · rank #71,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,878
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhizomes
Nearest frequency peer: rhizomes (+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 « Reverdy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressaut
ressaut
28,127 corpus weight
- restructuré
restructuré
28,126 corpus weight
- retentissan…
retentissants
28,125 corpus weight
- Reverdy
Reverdy
28,123 corpus weight
- rhizomes
rhizomes
28,122 corpus weight
- ridée
ridée
28,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Reverdy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reverdy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Reverdy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Reverdy is uncommon French at frequency #71,878 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Reverdy, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Reverdy, spelled R-E-V-E-R-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Reverdy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
David-Olivier Reverdy, secrétaire national province et référent investigation du syndicat Alliance, dit comprendre l’inquiétude de ses collègues de la PJ.
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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