rideau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,148
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
rideau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’étoffe, qu’on emploie pour cacher, couvrir, entourer quelque chose. Pronounced \ʁi.do\. It ranks #8,148 in French word frequency. Often confused with rides and rider.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rideau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.do\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rideau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi.do\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,148 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 rideau, with forms such as "irdeau", "rdieau", and "ridaeu". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "rides", "rider", "riders", 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 rideau, spelled R-I-D-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’étoffe, qu’on emploie pour cacher, couvrir, entourer quelque chose.
- 2Grande toile qu’on lève ou qu’on baisse pour montrer ou pour cacher la scène d’un théâtre aux spectateurs.
- 3Ligne d’arbres, d’arbrisseaux plantés en haie ou en palissade, pour produire de l’ombre ou pour rompre la violence du vent.
- 4Ce qui borne la vue, ce qui sert à cacher, à couvrir.
- 5Dans une course hippique, rang d’un cheval dans un wagon.
- 6Fin de quelque chose.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irdeau,rdieau,ridaeu,riddeau,rideua,riedau,rrideau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rideau
Misspelling Variants of "rideau"
Frequency rank: #8,148 in French
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