rigole
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,234
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
rigole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit canal creusé dans la terre ou dans la pierre, pour faire couler l’eau à travers un jardin, un pré, etc. Pronounced \ʁi.ɡɔl\. It ranks #7,234 in French word frequency. Often confused with rôle and rigolo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rigole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rigole is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi.ɡɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,234 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for rigole, with forms such as "irgole", "rgiole", and "riggole". 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 also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "rôle", "rigolo", "rivale", 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 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 rigole, spelled R-I-G-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit canal creusé dans la terre ou dans la pierre, pour faire couler l’eau à travers un jardin, un pré, etc.
- 2Creux, rainure ou sillon produit accidentellement le plus souvent par un élément météorologique.
- 3Sillon.
- 4Filet de liquide, généralement d'eau, qui coule, ruisselle sur une surface.
- 5Tranchée où l’on sème des graines; où l’on dispose des jeunes plants.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irgole,rgiole,riggole,rigloe,rigoel,rigolle,riogle,rrigole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "rigole"
Frequency rank: #7,234 in French
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