rigaud
\ʁi.ɡo\
The verdict
“rigaud” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,531
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noyau qui se trouve dans une pierre à chaux mal calcinée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rigaud · rigaud · French
rigaud · rank #37,531 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,531
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ries
Nearest frequency peer: ries (-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 « rigaud »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- risqués
risqués
62,468 corpus weight
What this shows « rigaud » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | rigaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rigaud »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rigaud (IPA \ʁi.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,531 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Noyau qui se trouve dans une pierre à chaux mal calcinée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rigaud, with forms such as "irgaud", "rgiaud", and "riagud". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Riyad", "rivaux", "Rivard", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rigaud, spelled R-I-G-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Noyau qui se trouve dans une pierre à chaux mal calcinée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irgaud
- rgiaud
- riagud
- rigadu
- rigaudd
- riggaud
- riguad
- rrigaud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rigaud - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).