rhums
\ʁɔm\
The verdict
“rhums” is uncommon French (frequency #69,389 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,389
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rhum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhums · rhums · French
rhums · rank #69,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,389
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RFC
Nearest frequency peer: RFC (-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 « rhums »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retournaient
retournaient
30,617 corpus weight
- retranchée
retranchée
30,616 corpus weight
- retransmet
retransmet
30,615 corpus weight
- RFC
RFC
30,613 corpus weight
- rhums
rhums
30,612 corpus weight
- risa
risa
30,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rhums » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhums |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rhums » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rhums is uncommon French at frequency #69,389 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rhum.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rhums, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rhums, spelled R-H-U-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rhum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rhums appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette arrivée massive des rhums survient après le décret de 1854 levant la prohibition sur les alcools étrangers et coloniaux.
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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