riche

/\ʁiʃ\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,420

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

riche is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui possède de grands biens, de grandes richesses. Pronounced \ʁiʃ\. It ranks #1,420 in French word frequency. Often confused with rie and rire.

Key facts for riche
PropertyValue
Headwordriche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁiʃ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,420
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of riche in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for riche is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁiʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,420 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for riche, with forms such as "irche", "rcihe", and "ricche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rie", "rire", "rive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 riche, spelled R-I-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui possède de grands biens, de grandes richesses.
  2. 2
    Pourvu.
  3. 3
    Abondant ; fertile.
  4. 4
    Qui est de grand prix, magnifique.
  5. 5
    Accompagné d’ornements précieux par la matière ou par le travail.
  6. 6
    Fécond en idées, en images.
  7. 7
    Chaud et varié.
  8. 8
    Musicalement puissant et varié, utilisant les diverses combinaisons d’accords, des diverses combinaisons instrumentales.
  9. 9
    Dont au moins les trois derniers phonèmes constituent la rime.
  10. 10
    En parlant d'un cheval de course, qui a remporté beaucoup de gains.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: irche,rcihe,ricche,riceh,richhe,rihce,rriche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for riche

Misspelling Variants of "riche"

irche5rcihe5ricche6riceh5richhe6rihce5rriche6
Misspelling Variants of "riche"

Frequency rank: #1,420 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "riche"?
"riche" is spelled R-I-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁiʃ\.
What does "riche" mean?
As an adj, "riche" means: Qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui possède de grands biens, de grandes richesses.
What words are commonly confused with "riche"?
"riche" is commonly confused with "rie", "rire", "rive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "riche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "riche" is \ʁiʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "riche" come from?
"riche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.