rhombus
The verdict
“rhombus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Losange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhombus · rhombus · French
rhombus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhombus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhombus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhombus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rhombus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rhombus, spelled R-H-O-M-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Losange.
- 2Objets de forme rhombique.
- 3Genre de poissons de nom scientifique Scophthalmus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhombus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Circle cannot be deſcribed about a Rhombus or Rhomboyades, becaule their Oppoſite Angles are greater or leſſer than two right Angles
If tangents be drawn through the extremities of two diameters of a circle the parallelogram thus formed will be a rhombus.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.