Ricœur
The verdict
“Ricœur” is an uncommon French word, ranked #68,620 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #68,620
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom de famille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ricœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ricœur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Ricœur is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #68,620 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Ricœur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Ricœur, spelled R-I-C-Œ-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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Using “Ricœur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-I-C-Œ-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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