rimmel
\ʁi.mɛl\
The verdict
“rimmel” is uncommon French (frequency #93,185 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,185
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produit cosmétique qui surligne les yeux et colore les cils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rimmel · rimmel · French
rimmel · rank #93,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,185
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigorisme
Nearest frequency peer: rigorisme (-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 « rimmel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rhinoceros
rhinoceros
6,821 corpus weight
- Rians
Rians
6,820 corpus weight
- ridder
ridder
6,819 corpus weight
- rigorisme
rigorisme
6,818 corpus weight
- rimmel
rimmel
6,816 corpus weight
- rink
rink
6,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rimmel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rimmel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rimmel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rimmel is uncommon French at frequency #93,185 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Produit cosmétique qui surligne les yeux et colore les cils.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rimmel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rimmel, spelled R-I-M-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Produit cosmétique qui surligne les yeux et colore les cils.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rimmel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son visage était maquillé en épaisseur. Un fort poids de rimmel lui donnait le regard éperdu et vitreux des vieilles idoles. Ses lèvres étaient collées de fard.
Jolie môme T’ as l’ rimmel Qui fout l’ camp C’est l’ dégel Des amants Jolie môme
This word in other languages
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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