rex
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,467
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rex is aFrenchnoun. It means: Race de chat, à queue longue ou moyenne et à poil court et ondulé car il n’est constitué que du sous-poil. Pronounced \ʁɛks\. Often confused with Rh and RT.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rex is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛks\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,467 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rex in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rh", "RT", "RP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rex, spelled R-E-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Race de chat, à queue longue ou moyenne et à poil court et ondulé car il n’est constitué que du sous-poil.
- 2Race de lapins, originaires de France, de taille moyenne, qui ont une fourrure duveteuse, très dense et courte, ayant l’aspect du velours et composée uniquement de fin duvet.
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Frequency rank: #12,467 in French
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