rikiki
\ʁi.ki.ki\
The verdict
“rikiki” is uncommon French (frequency #90,134 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,134
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ridiculement petit ou étriqué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rikiki · rikiki · French
rikiki · rank #90,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,134
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhymes
Nearest frequency peer: rhymes (-2 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 « rikiki »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retreat
retreat
9,872 corpus weight
- revérifier
revérifier
9,871 corpus weight
- rhymes
rhymes
9,869 corpus weight
- rikiki
rikiki
9,867 corpus weight
- ripa
ripa
9,864 corpus weight
- Rivest
Rivest
9,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rikiki » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rikiki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁi.ki.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rikiki » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rikiki is uncommon French at frequency #90,134 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁi.ki.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ridiculement petit ou étriqué.".
rikiki doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rikiki, spelled R-I-K-I-K-I.
Definition
- 1Ridiculement petit ou étriqué.
Antonyms
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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