rhododendron
\ʁo.do.dɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“rhododendron” is an uncommon French word, ranked #85,227 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #85,227
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante dont le genre appartient à la famille des éricacées, dont les diverses espèces sont recherchées pour la beauté de leurs fleurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhododendron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.do.dɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rhododendron” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rhododendron is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁo.do.dɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #85,227 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plante dont le genre appartient à la famille des éricacées, dont les diverses espèces sont recherchées pour la beauté de leurs fleurs.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rhododendron, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rhododendron, spelled R-H-O-D-O-D-E-N-D-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Plante dont le genre appartient à la famille des éricacées, dont les diverses espèces sont recherchées pour la beauté de leurs fleurs.
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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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Using “rhododendron”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-H-O-D-O-D-E-N-D-R-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁo.do.dɛ̃.dʁɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.