rickshaw
\ʁik.ʃo\
The verdict
“rickshaw” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule tricycle à propulsion humaine ou mécanique, destiné au transport de personnes et de marchandises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rickshaw · rickshaw · French
rickshaw · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rickshaw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁik.ʃo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rickshaw is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁik.ʃo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Véhicule tricycle à propulsion humaine ou mécanique, destiné au transport de personnes et de marchandises.".
rickshaw has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rickshaw, spelled R-I-C-K-S-H-A-W.
Definition
- 1Véhicule tricycle à propulsion humaine ou mécanique, destiné au transport de personnes et de marchandises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rickshaw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais à leurs pieds passent les touk-touk, des sortes de rickshaws.
À soixante et un ans, au Bangladesh, Joynal Abedin pédale toute la journée sur un rickshaw, un moyen de transport commun en Asie qui est un gros tricycle muni d'une banquette arrière prévue pour deux personnes mais sur laquelle il n'est pas rare que trois ou quatre passagers prennent place.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.