ridé

adj

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The verdict

“ridé” is uncommon French (frequency #63,307 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,307
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvert de rides.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ride · ridé · French

ridé · rank #63,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,307
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH Rialto

Nearest frequency peer: Rialto (-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 « ridé »

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 « ridé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ridé
PropertyValue
Headwordridé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters4
Frequency rank#63,307
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ridé » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ridétombe 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: « Rialto » (#63,306), « rina » (#63,308), « revendant » (#63,305). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « ridé » est au #63,307. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ridé is uncommon French at frequency #63,307 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couvert de rides.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ridé in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ridé, spelled R-I-D-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Couvert de rides.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une vieille toute ridée.
  2. Un visage ridé.

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 "ridé"?
"ridé" is spelled R-I-D-É.
What does "ridé" mean?
As an adjective, "ridé" means: Couvert de rides.
What language does "ridé" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rina#63,308Ralf#63,281sodo#63,362plum#63,248

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list