rime
French, noun
rime is spelled R-I-M-E (4 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rime is a French feminine noun meaning “rhyme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of rimer. With an accent, rimé is a different word: “past participle of rimer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retour d'un ou plusieurs phonèmes à la fin de deux ou plusieurs vers ; ce phonème ou ces phonèmes eux-mêmes”.
What does rime mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerhyme
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of rimer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Retour d'un ou plusieurs phonèmes à la fin de deux ou plusieurs vers ; ce phonème ou ces phonèmes eux-mêmes. 2. Ensemble de vers, poème. 3. Partie de la syllabe qui suit l’attaque, comprenant le noyau syllabique et, le cas échéant, la coda.
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 rime
- rimes plural
- rimée feminine
- rimés masculine plural
- rimées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rime
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rime in French?
rime appears 5.4 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).