richebourg

\ʁiʃ.buʁ\

/\ʁiʃ.buʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“richebourg” is uncommon French (frequency #89,093 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,093
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin d'appellation d'origine contrôlée produit sur le climat du Richebourg à Vosne-Romanée, en Côte-d’Or.

Corpus desk

Index FR-richebourg · richebourg · French

richebourg · rank #89,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,093
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rhodia

Nearest frequency peer: rhodia (-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 « richebourg »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « richebourg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for richebourg
PropertyValue
Headwordrichebourg
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁiʃ.buʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#89,093
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « richebourg » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).richebourgtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « rhodia » (#89,092), « rincés » (#89,094), « reveniez » (#89,091). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « richebourg » est au #89,093. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

richebourg is uncommon French at frequency #89,093 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁiʃ.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin d'appellation d'origine contrôlée produit sur le climat du Richebourg à Vosne-Romanée, en Côte-d’Or.".

No misspelling variants are generated for richebourg in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is richebourg, spelled R-I-C-H-E-B-O-U-R-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vin d'appellation d'origine contrôlée produit sur le climat du Richebourg à Vosne-Romanée, en Côte-d’Or.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how richebourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y avait Bibulus O’Bumper. Il dit son mot sur le latour et le markbrünnen, sur le champagne mousseux et le chambertin, sur le richebourg et le saint-georges, sur le haut-brion, le léoville et le médoc, sur le barsac et le preignac, sur le grave, sur le sauterne, sur le laffite et sur le saint-péray. Il hocha la tête à l’endroit du clos-vougeot, et se va…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "richebourg"?
"richebourg" is spelled R-I-C-H-E-B-O-U-R-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁiʃ.buʁ\.
What does "richebourg" mean?
As a noun, "richebourg" means: Vin d'appellation d'origine contrôlée produit sur le climat du Richebourg à Vosne-Romanée, en Côte-d’Or.
How do you pronounce "richebourg"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "richebourg" is \ʁiʃ.buʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "richebourg" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "richebourg", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list