rhume
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,467
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
rhume is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écoulement causé par l’irritation ou l’inflammation de la membrane muqueuse qui tapisse le nez et la gorge. Il s’accompagne de toux, d’enrouement, d’expectoration, quelquefois d’un peu de fièvre. Pronounced \ʁym\. Often confused with rue and Rome.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁym\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rhume is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁym\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,467 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rhume, with forms such as "hrume", "rhhume", and "rhmue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "Rome", "rude", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rhume, spelled R-H-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écoulement causé par l’irritation ou l’inflammation de la membrane muqueuse qui tapisse le nez et la gorge. Il s’accompagne de toux, d’enrouement, d’expectoration, quelquefois d’un peu de fièvre.
- 2Coryza, syndrome de ce type causé par un virus, en général un picornavirus (rhinovirus, entérovirus) , parfois un virus influenza, un coronavirus, un virus respiratoire syncytial (pneumovirus), un virus parainfluenza ou un métapneumovirus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hrume,rhhume,rhmue,rhuem,rhumme,rrhume,ruhme
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Misspelling Variants of "rhume"
Frequency rank: #13,467 in French
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