reward
\ʁe.waʁ\
The verdict
“reward” is uncommon French (frequency #87,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,103
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné autrefois à Bruges au chef de jurés élu par les échevins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reward · reward · French
reward · rank #87,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reventes
Nearest frequency peer: reventes (-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 « reward »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- resa
resa
12,902 corpus weight
- restaura
restaura
12,901 corpus weight
- revendicati…
revendicative
12,900 corpus weight
- reventes
reventes
12,899 corpus weight
- reward
reward
12,898 corpus weight
- Ripert
Ripert
12,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reward » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reward |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.waʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reward » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reward is uncommon French at frequency #87,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.waʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné autrefois à Bruges au chef de jurés élu par les échevins.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for reward, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is reward, spelled R-E-W-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom donné autrefois à Bruges au chef de jurés élu par les échevins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reward appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’un côté, une fois vainqueur, le reward de Flandre se conduit comme le comte qu’il singe, …
Le rewardage est la fonction exercé par le reward.
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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