riais
\ʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“riais” is uncommon French (frequency #52,316 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,316
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riais · riais · French
riais · rank #52,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,316
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retournèrent
Nearest frequency peer: retournèrent (-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 « riais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remercierai
remercierai
47,688 corpus weight
- retardant
retardant
47,687 corpus weight
- retournèrent
retournèrent
47,686 corpus weight
- riais
riais
47,685 corpus weight
- RMN
RMN
47,683 corpus weight
- roach
roach
47,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « riais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « riais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
riais is uncommon French at frequency #52,316 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for riais, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is riais, spelled R-I-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de rire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de rire.
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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