rhéto
French, noun/ʁe.to/
rhéto is spelled R-H-É-T-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rhéto is a French feminine noun meaning “final year in high school, twelfth grade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rhétoricien ou rhétoricienne, élève de classe terminale de l’enseignement secondaire belge”.
What does rhéto mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinformalfinal year in high school, twelfth grade
noun
- 1
feminineinformalmasculinefinal year student, high school senior
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rhétoricien ou rhétoricienne, élève de classe terminale de l’enseignement secondaire belge.
noun: 1. Apocope de rhétorique, classe de lycée, équivalente à la première. 2. Classe de rhétorique, classe terminale de l’enseignement secondaire belge.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rhéto
- rhétos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rhéto?
- /ʁe.to/
- \ʁe.tɔ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rhéto in French?
rhéto appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).