ricana
\ʁi.ka.na\
The verdict
“ricana” is uncommon French (frequency #94,212 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,212
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ricaner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ricana · ricana · French
ricana · rank #94,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,212
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rivero
Nearest frequency peer: rivero (+2 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 « ricana »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revisitent
revisitent
5,793 corpus weight
- revivifier
revivifier
5,792 corpus weight
- ricana
ricana
5,789 corpus weight
- rivero
rivero
5,787 corpus weight
- Rixensart
Rixensart
5,786 corpus weight
- romi
romi
5,784 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ricana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.ka.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ricana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ricana is uncommon French at frequency #94,212 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.ka.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ricaner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ricana in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ricana, spelled R-I-C-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ricaner.
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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