Rimouski
\ʁi.mus.ki\
The verdict
“Rimouski” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,552
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Rimouski-Neigette, chef-lieu du Bas-Saint-Laurent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rimouski · Rimouski · French
Rimouski · rank #20,552 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigoureusement
Nearest frequency peer: rigoureusement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rimouski »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- repaire
repaire
79,452 corpus weight
- retournés
retournés
79,451 corpus weight
- rigoureusem…
rigoureusement
79,450 corpus weight
- Rimouski
Rimouski
79,449 corpus weight
- roquettes
roquettes
79,448 corpus weight
- récepteurs
récepteurs
79,447 corpus weight
What this shows « Rimouski » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rimouski |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.mus.ki\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rimouski »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Rimouski (IPA \ʁi.mus.ki\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,552 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rimouski, with forms such as "irmouski", "rimmouski", and "rimosuki". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Rimouski, spelled R-I-M-O-U-S-K-I.
Definition
- 1Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Rimouski-Neigette, chef-lieu du Bas-Saint-Laurent.
- 2Archidiocèse de l’Église catholique au Québec au Canada.
- 3Rivière au Québec au Canada, un affluent du fleuve Saint-Laurent.
- 4Réserve faunique au Québec au Canada.
- 5Circonscription électorale provinciale du Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rimouski appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le passage d’un promoteur de l’industrie pornographique à Rimouski, dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent, cause tout un mal de tête à la direction régionale de santé publique, qui peine à retracer les personnes possiblement exposées à la COVID-19.
« Ça pourrait même dépasser les 30 centimètres de neige dans les secteurs de Kamouraska, du Témiscouata, de Rimouski et de la vallée de la Matapédia », a estimé M. Parent lors d’une entrevue avec La Presse canadienne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irmouski
- rimmouski
- rimosuki
- rimouksi
- rimousik
- rimouskki
- rimousski
- rimuoski
- riomuski
- rmiouski
- rrimouski
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rimouski - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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