ricanement
\ʁi.kan.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ricanement” is uncommon French (frequency #71,023 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,023
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de ricaner ; bruit que fait cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ricanement · ricanement · French
ricanement · rank #71,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,023
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rheims
Nearest frequency peer: Rheims (-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 « ricanement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revoter
revoter
28,981 corpus weight
- Reynier
Reynier
28,980 corpus weight
- Rheims
Rheims
28,979 corpus weight
- ricanement
ricanement
28,978 corpus weight
- ridiculisée
ridiculisée
28,977 corpus weight
- Rinaldo
Rinaldo
28,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ricanement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricanement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.kan.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ricanement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ricanement is uncommon French at frequency #71,023 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.kan.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ricanement in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ricanement, spelled R-I-C-A-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de ricaner ; bruit que fait cette action.
- 2Cri de la hyène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ricanement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute la nuit, des gens louvoient sous mes fenêtres, vocifèrent, gambadent, font entendre de longs ricanements. […]. Quelle est cette interminable bamboche, cette effrénée descente de la Courtille ?
Gabriel le savait déjà. Il savait aussi que chez certaines êtres l’humour – voire le ricanement – est une forme de pudeur.
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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