rie
\ʁi\
The verdict
“rie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,393) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,393
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rie · rie · French
rie · rank #19,393 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,393
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Ricky
Nearest frequency peer: Ricky (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rie »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- remplacera
remplacera
80,612 corpus weight
- retracer
retracer
80,610 corpus weight
- Ricky
Ricky
80,609 corpus weight
- rie
rie
80,608 corpus weight
- Rodolphe
Rodolphe
80,607 corpus weight
- rougir
rougir
80,606 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rie »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rie is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʁi\. Frequency #19,393 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rie, spelled R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vaticinais. En rie qui voudra.
Je ne veux pas, répondit le garçon, retrouvant enfin sa langue ; je ne veux pas rester ici pour qu’on rie de moi. Je ne le supporterai pas !
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.
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