rig
\ʁiɡ\
The verdict
“rig” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,766) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,766
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des équipements ajoutés sur une caméra (cage, tige, moteur de point...).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rig · rig · French
rig · rank #48,766 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,766
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH riffs
Nearest frequency peer: riffs (-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 « rig »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- RFF
RFF
51,238 corpus weight
- riffs
riffs
51,236 corpus weight
- rig
rig
51,235 corpus weight
- roaming
roaming
51,234 corpus weight
- rodage
rodage
51,233 corpus weight
- rolando
rolando
51,232 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rig » 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 | rig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁiɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rig »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rig is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁiɡ\. Frequency #48,766 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Ensemble des équipements ajoutés sur une caméra (cage, tige, moteur de point...).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rig in our index, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rig, spelled R-I-G.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des équipements ajoutés sur une caméra (cage, tige, moteur de point...).
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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