rigoristes
\ʁi.ɡɔ.ʁist\
The verdict
“rigoristes” is uncommon French (frequency #88,040 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,040
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rigoriste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rigoristes · rigoristes · French
rigoristes · rank #88,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,040
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revigorer
Nearest frequency peer: revigorer (-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 « rigoristes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retardateur
retardateur
11,965 corpus weight
- retranchant
retranchant
11,964 corpus weight
- revigorer
revigorer
11,962 corpus weight
- rigoristes
rigoristes
11,961 corpus weight
- rimait
rimait
11,959 corpus weight
- rincez
rincez
11,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rigoristes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rigoristes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡɔ.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rigoristes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rigoristes is uncommon French at frequency #88,040 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁi.ɡɔ.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rigoriste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rigoristes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rigoristes, spelled R-I-G-O-R-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rigoriste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rigoristes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les réponses de quelques pays manifestent davantage de cohérence : c’est le cas de la Belgique faiblement légaliste et tolérante à la fraude fiscale, et dans l’autre sens, de l’Irlande et du Portugal à la fois légalistes et rigoristes.
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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