ria
\ʁi.a\
The verdict
“ria” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,780) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,780
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Basse vallée d’un fleuve envahie par la mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ria · ria · French
ria · rank #30,780 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,780
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revenais
Nearest frequency peer: revenais (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ria »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- respects
respects
69,224 corpus weight
- retenant
retenant
69,223 corpus weight
- revenais
revenais
69,222 corpus weight
- ria
ria
69,221 corpus weight
- ricochet
ricochet
69,220 corpus weight
- Ritchie
Ritchie
69,219 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ria » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ria »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ria is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁi.a\. Frequency #30,780 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Basse vallée d’un fleuve envahie par la mer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ria, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ria, spelled R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Basse vallée d’un fleuve envahie par la mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Porter le regard au sommet du volcan, examiner la fumée qui en est le panache, tendre l’oreille, capter les grondements, oublier les terreurs enfantines, plonger au pied de la coulée de lave qui charbonne une moitié du cône, sous l’eau garder les yeux ouverts, devant Ginostra saluer les ânes et les hommes, reconnaître les rias interdites et les caps tendu…
Ici, l’Atlantique rêvant d’envahir l’Europe a façonné les rias, cousines locales des abers bretons…
Synonyms
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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