ricaine
\ʁi.kɛn\
The verdict
“ricaine” is uncommon French (frequency #74,339 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,339
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ricain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ricaine · ricaine · French
ricaine · rank #74,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,339
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Reynald
Nearest frequency peer: Reynald (-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 « ricaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reverront
reverront
25,665 corpus weight
- revêtait
revêtait
25,664 corpus weight
- Reynald
Reynald
25,663 corpus weight
- ricaine
ricaine
25,662 corpus weight
- rochas
rochas
25,661 corpus weight
- rocs
rocs
25,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ricaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ricaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ricaine is uncommon French at frequency #74,339 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁi.kɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de ricain.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ricaine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ricaine, spelled R-I-C-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ricain.
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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