rigueur
\ʁi.ɡœʁ\
The verdict
“rigueur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,982
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sévérité inflexible, dureté, austérité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rigueur · rigueur · French
rigueur · rank #4,982 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,982
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reproduction
Nearest frequency peer: reproduction (-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 « rigueur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rendue
rendue
95,022 corpus weight
- reproche
reproche
95,021 corpus weight
- reproduction
reproduction
95,020 corpus weight
- rigueur
rigueur
95,019 corpus weight
- robin
robin
95,018 corpus weight
- roses
roses
95,017 corpus weight
What this shows « rigueur » 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 | rigueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rigueur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rigueur (IPA \ʁi.ɡœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,982 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rigueur, with forms such as "irgueur", "rgiueur", and "rigeuur". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "rugueux", "rieur", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rigueur, spelled R-I-G-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Sévérité inflexible, dureté, austérité.
- 2Température de dureté, d'âpreté.
- 3Exactitude inflexible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rigueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grande, extrême, insupportable rigueur.
Vous me traitez avec la dernière rigueur, avec trop de rigueur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irgueur
- rgiueur
- rigeuur
- riggueur
- rigueru
- rigueurr
- riguuer
- riugeur
- rrigueur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rigueur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "rigueur"?
What does "rigueur" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "rigueur"?
How do you pronounce "rigueur"?
What language does "rigueur" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rigueur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).