rigueurs
\ʁi.ɡœʁ\
The verdict
“rigueurs” is uncommon French (frequency #53,604 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,604
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rigueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rigueurs · rigueurs · French
rigueurs · rank #53,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,604
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhénane
Nearest frequency peer: rhénane (-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 « rigueurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retentissan…
retentissante
46,401 corpus weight
- rhumes
rhumes
46,399 corpus weight
- rhénane
rhénane
46,398 corpus weight
- rigueurs
rigueurs
46,397 corpus weight
- riquet
riquet
46,396 corpus weight
- récidives
récidives
46,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rigueurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rigueurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rigueurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rigueurs is uncommon French at frequency #53,604 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.ɡœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rigueur.".
rigueurs doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rigueurs, spelled R-I-G-U-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rigueur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rigueurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les deux domaines, on donne à voir, mais on ne donne pas à voir avec les mêmes moyens ni suivant les mêmes rigueurs.
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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