rima
\ʁi.ma\
The verdict
“rima” is uncommon French (frequency #51,708 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,708
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du passé simple de rimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rima · rima · French
rima · rank #51,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,708
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ribot
Nearest frequency peer: ribot (-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 « rima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- resservir
resservir
48,296 corpus weight
- retentir
retentir
48,295 corpus weight
- ribot
ribot
48,294 corpus weight
- rima
rima
48,293 corpus weight
- rions
rions
48,292 corpus weight
- rivets
rivets
48,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rima is uncommon French at frequency #51,708 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du passé simple de rimer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rima in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 rima, spelled R-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du passé simple de rimer.
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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