rhizomes
\ʁi.zom\
The verdict
“rhizomes” is uncommon French (frequency #71,879 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,879
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rhizome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhizomes · rhizomes · French
rhizomes · rank #71,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,879
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Reverdy
Nearest frequency peer: Reverdy (-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 « rhizomes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- restructuré
restructuré
28,126 corpus weight
- retentissan…
retentissants
28,125 corpus weight
- Reverdy
Reverdy
28,123 corpus weight
- rhizomes
rhizomes
28,122 corpus weight
- ridée
ridée
28,120 corpus weight
- Rochambeau
Rochambeau
28,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhizomes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhizomes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.zom\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhizomes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhizomes is uncommon French at frequency #71,879 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.zom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rhizome.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rhizomes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rhizomes, spelled R-H-I-Z-O-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rhizome.
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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