riesling

/\ʁis.liŋ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#47,002

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

riesling is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cépage donnant de petits raisins blancs, serrés en petites grappes compactes. On le trouve principalement en Alsace et en Moselle. En 2009 il y en avait 3300 hectares en France, 1000 hectares en Cr... Pronounced \ʁis.liŋ\.

Key facts for riesling
PropertyValue
Headwordriesling
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁis.liŋ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#47,002
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of riesling in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for riesling is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁis.liŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,002 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for riesling, with forms such as "iresling", "reisling", and "rielsing". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 riesling, spelled R-I-E-S-L-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cépage donnant de petits raisins blancs, serrés en petites grappes compactes. On le trouve principalement en Alsace et en Moselle. En 2009 il y en avait 3300 hectares en France, 1000 hectares en Croatie, 22000 hectares en 2000 en Allemagne.
  2. 2
    Vin blanc issu de ce cépage.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iresling,reisling,rielsing,riesilng,rieslign,rieslingg,rieslinng,rieslling,rieslnig,riessling,riseling,rriesling

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for riesling

Misspelling Variants of "riesling"

iresling8reisling8rielsing8riesilng8rieslign8rieslingg9rieslinng9rieslling9
Misspelling Variants of "riesling"

Frequency rank: #47,002 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "riesling"?
"riesling" is spelled R-I-E-S-L-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁis.liŋ\.
What does "riesling" mean?
As a noun, "riesling" means: Cépage donnant de petits raisins blancs, serrés en petites grappes compactes. On le trouve principalement en Alsace et en Moselle. En 2009 il y en avait 3300 hectares en France, 1000 hectares en Cr...
What are common misspellings of "riesling"?
Common misspellings include "iresling", "reisling", "rielsing", "riesilng", "rieslign". The correct spelling is "riesling".
How do you pronounce "riesling"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "riesling" is \ʁis.liŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "riesling" come from?
"riesling" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.