rhumatisme
\ʁy.ma.tism\
The verdict
“rhumatisme” is uncommon French (frequency #61,095 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,095
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Douleur qui siège particulièrement dans les muscles ou les articulations et qui n’est accompagnée ni de fièvre ni d’aucun caractère d’inflammation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhumatisme · rhumatisme · French
rhumatisme · rank #61,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,095
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retirèrent
Nearest frequency peer: retirèrent (-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 « rhumatisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- resister
resister
38,911 corpus weight
- respirable
respirable
38,910 corpus weight
- ressac
ressac
38,909 corpus weight
- retirerait
retirerait
38,908 corpus weight
- retirèrent
retirèrent
38,907 corpus weight
- rhumatisme
rhumatisme
38,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhumatisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhumatisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.ma.tism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhumatisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhumatisme is uncommon French at frequency #61,095 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy.ma.tism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Douleur qui siège particulièrement dans les muscles ou les articulations et qui n’est accompagnée ni de fièvre ni d’aucun caractère d’inflammation.".
rhumatisme has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rhumatisme, spelled R-H-U-M-A-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Douleur qui siège particulièrement dans les muscles ou les articulations et qui n’est accompagnée ni de fièvre ni d’aucun caractère d’inflammation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhumatisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh bien, va lui dire que j’ai mon rhumatisme au bras et que je ne reçois personne.
Ce méridional, privé de soleil, exécrait Paris qu’il nommait une fabrique de rhumatismes.
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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