rhésus
\ʁe.zys\
The verdict
“rhésus” is uncommon French (frequency #66,303 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,303
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Macaque rhésus (Macaca mulatta) ou singe rhésus ou bandar, l’une des espèces de singes les plus connues de l’Ancien monde, commune en Afghanistan, Inde septentrionale et Chine méridionale, et souve...
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhesus · rhésus · French
rhésus · rank #66,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,303
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rha
Nearest frequency peer: Rha (-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 « rhésus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- result
result
33,701 corpus weight
- retriever
retriever
33,700 corpus weight
- Rha
Rha
33,699 corpus weight
- rhésus
rhésus
33,698 corpus weight
- rioja
rioja
33,697 corpus weight
- rocambolesq…
rocambolesques
33,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhésus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhésus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.zys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhésus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhésus is uncommon French at frequency #66,303 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.zys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rhésus, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rhésus, spelled R-H-É-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Macaque rhésus (Macaca mulatta) ou singe rhésus ou bandar, l’une des espèces de singes les plus connues de l’Ancien monde, commune en Afghanistan, Inde septentrionale et Chine méridionale, et souvent utilisée comme animal de laboratoire.
- 2Antigène présent (rhésus positif, symbole Rh+) ou absent (rhésus négatif, symbole Rh-) dans les globules rouges du sang, ce qui détermine le groupe sanguin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhésus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ANDi, rhésus porteur d’un gène (protéine vert fluorescent) emprunté à la méduse, d’où son nom ANDi pour ADN inséré, est le premier primate transgénique.
Une femme de rhésus négatif élabore un anticorps anti-rhésus (agglutinine irrégulière) si l’enfant qu’elle porte est de rhésus positif.
This word in other languages
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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