rewind
\riˈwaɪnd\
The verdict
“rewind” is uncommon French (frequency #84,252 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,252
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rembobiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rewind · rewind · French
rewind · rank #84,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,252
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revoyais
Nearest frequency peer: revoyais (-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 « rewind »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- responsible
responsible
15,752 corpus weight
- retravaillée
retravaillée
15,751 corpus weight
- revoyais
revoyais
15,750 corpus weight
- rewind
rewind
15,749 corpus weight
- Reynders
Reynders
15,748 corpus weight
- rhapsodie
rhapsodie
15,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rewind » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rewind |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \riˈwaɪnd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rewind » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rewind is uncommon French at frequency #84,252 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \riˈwaɪnd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rembobiner.".
rewind has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 rewind, spelled R-E-W-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1Rembobiner.
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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