rifle
\ʁifl\
The verdict
“rifle” is uncommon French (frequency #61,100 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,100
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fusil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rifle · rifle · French
rifle · rank #61,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,100
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ripper
Nearest frequency peer: ripper (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rifle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retirèrent
retirèrent
38,907 corpus weight
- rhumatisme
rhumatisme
38,906 corpus weight
- rifle
rifle
38,901 corpus weight
- ripper
ripper
38,900 corpus weight
- riveraine
riveraine
38,898 corpus weight
- ronflements
ronflements
38,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rifle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rifle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁifl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rifle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rifle is uncommon French at frequency #61,100 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁifl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rifle, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rifle, spelled R-I-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Fusil.
- 2Tireur à ce fusil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rifle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Carabine vingt-deux long rifle : Carabine de chasse ou de sport de calibre de vingt-deux centièmes de pouce (soit cinq millimètres cinquante huit).
Le chasseur voulait davantage sans doute, car sa main tourmentait fébrilement la batterie de son rifle, un excellent Manton, arme de précision, à balle conique, qui permettait d’abattre un chat sauvage ou une antilope à une distance de huit à neuf cents yards.
This word in other languages
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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