rhizome
\ʁi.zom\
The verdict
“rhizome” is uncommon French (frequency #59,596 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,596
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tige souterraine, généralement horizontale, de certaines plantes vivaces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhizome · rhizome · French
rhizome · rank #59,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,596
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revirements
Nearest frequency peer: revirements (-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 « rhizome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retiendrai
retiendrai
40,408 corpus weight
- revendiquées
revendiquées
40,407 corpus weight
- revirements
revirements
40,406 corpus weight
- rhizome
rhizome
40,405 corpus weight
- rhénan
rhénan
40,404 corpus weight
- ricotta
ricotta
40,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhizome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhizome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.zom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhizome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhizome is uncommon French at frequency #59,596 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.zom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tige souterraine, généralement horizontale, de certaines plantes vivaces.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rhizome, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 rhizome, spelled R-H-I-Z-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Tige souterraine, généralement horizontale, de certaines plantes vivaces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhizome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Divisez les plantes bulbeuses et les vivaces à rhizome
Comment expliquer les effets toxiques constatés sur le rhizome après les applications foliaires d’amitrole ?
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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