richard
\ʁi.ʃaʁ\
The verdict
“richard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,247
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui est riche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-richard · richard · French
richard · rank #2,247 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,247
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH respecter
Nearest frequency peer: respecter (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « richard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- record
record
97,757 corpus weight
- remplacer
remplacer
97,756 corpus weight
- respecter
respecter
97,755 corpus weight
- richard
richard
97,754 corpus weight
- royal
royal
97,753 corpus weight
- savait
savait
97,752 corpus weight
What this shows « richard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | richard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ʃaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « richard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around richard (IPA \ʁi.ʃaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,247 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui est riche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for richard, with forms such as "irchard", "rcihard", and "ricahrd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Rocard", "richer", "Rivard", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is richard, spelled R-I-C-H-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui est riche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how richard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à Pierre Rougon, il avait pris du ventre ; il était devenu un très-respectable bourgeois, auquel il ne manquait que de grosses rentes pour paraître tout à fait digne. Sa face empâtée et blafarde, sa lourdeur, son air assoupi, semblaient suer l’argent. Il avait entendu dire un jour à un paysan qui ne le connaissait pas : « C’est quelque richard, ce g…
La jeune Garde Rouge Fera trembler tous les richards !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irchard
- rcihard
- ricahrd
- ricchard
- richadr
- richardd
- richarrd
- richhard
- richrad
- rihcard
- rrichard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of richard - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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