Rh
\ɛ.ʁaʃ\
The verdict
“Rh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,385) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,385
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du rhésus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rh · Rh · French
Rh · rank #9,385 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,385
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réduits
Nearest frequency peer: réduits (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Rh”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- retrouvera
retrouvera
90,620 corpus weight
- revenant
revenant
90,619 corpus weight
- Rh
Rh
90,616 corpus weight
- réduits
réduits
90,615 corpus weight
- réservés
réservés
90,613 corpus weight
- saisis
saisis
90,612 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rh” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁaʃ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Rh” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rh is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛ.ʁaʃ\. Frequency #9,385 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du rhésus.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Rh in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Rh, spelled R-H.
Definition
- 1Symbole du rhésus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mongolisme ressemble étrangement à la maladie hémolytique des nouveau-nés, lorsque les parents sont pour l’un Rh positif, pour l’autre Rh négatif.
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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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.