ries
\ʁi\
The verdict
“ries” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,530) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,530
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ries · ries · French
ries · rank #37,530 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,530
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renfermé
Nearest frequency peer: renfermé (-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 « ries »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- remboursabl…
remboursables
62,474 corpus weight
- renchérit
renchérit
62,473 corpus weight
- renfermé
renfermé
62,472 corpus weight
- ries
ries
62,471 corpus weight
- rigaud
rigaud
62,470 corpus weight
- rillettes
rillettes
62,469 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ries » 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 | ries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ries »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ries is neighbouring look-alikes ("rue", "rio", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʁi\. Frequency #37,530 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for ries, including "ires" and "riess". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "rio", "riz", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ries, spelled R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ires
- riess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ries - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).