riel

\ʁjɛl\

/\ʁjɛl\/ noun

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The verdict

“riel” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,509
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devise officielle du Cambodge depuis 1977.

Corpus desk

Index FR-riel · riel · French

riel · rank #39,509 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,509
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH revisité

Nearest frequency peer: revisité (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « riel »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « riel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

riel vs RL
0% similar
riel vs rue
50% similar
riel vs rio
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for riel
PropertyValue
Headwordriel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁjɛl\
Letters4
Frequency rank#39,509
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « riel »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rielse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « revisité » (#39,508), « rieur » (#39,510), « retournons » (#39,507). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « riel » est au #39,509. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around riel (IPA \ʁjɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,509 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Devise officielle du Cambodge depuis 1977.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for riel, with forms such as "irel", "reil", and "riell". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RL", "rue", "rio", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is riel, spelled R-I-E-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Devise officielle du Cambodge depuis 1977.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un riel est divisé en cent sen.
  2. La Banque centrale fixe chaque jour le cours officiel du riel sur la base des cours constatés dans les trois plus importantes agences de change.

This word in other languages

riel(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irel
  • reil
  • riell
  • rile
  • rriel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of riel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

irel2reil2riell1rile2rriel1
Edit distance from "riel"

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 "riel"?
"riel" is spelled R-I-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁjɛl\.
What does "riel" mean?
As a noun, "riel" means: Devise officielle du Cambodge depuis 1977.
What words are commonly confused with "riel"?
"riel" is commonly confused with "RL", "rue", "rio". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "riel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "riel" is \ʁjɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "riel" come from?
"riel" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Romy#39,514rule#39,521soma#39,542Petr#39,455

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Sanaa5 variantstage5 variantspalet5 variantsüber5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list