rigueur
French, noun/ʁi.ɡœʁ/
rigueur is spelled R-I-G-U-E-U-R (7 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rigueur is a French feminine noun meaning “rigour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sévérité inflexible, dureté, austérité”.
What does rigueur mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sévérité inflexible, dureté, austérité. 2. Température de dureté, d'âpreté. 3. Recherche d’exactitude. 4. En apposition :
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rigueur
- rigueurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rigueur?
- /ʁi.ɡœʁ/
- \ʁi.ɡœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rigueur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rigueur in French?
rigueur appears 15 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).