rinceaux
\ʁɛ̃.so\
The verdict
“rinceaux” is uncommon French (frequency #59,602 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,602
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rinceau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rinceaux · rinceaux · French
rinceaux · rank #59,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,602
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH riment
Nearest frequency peer: riment (-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 « rinceaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ricotta
ricotta
40,403 corpus weight
- rigoriste
rigoriste
40,401 corpus weight
- riment
riment
40,400 corpus weight
- rinceaux
rinceaux
40,399 corpus weight
- Rocamadour
Rocamadour
40,398 corpus weight
- rosaces
rosaces
40,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rinceaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rinceaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rinceaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rinceaux is uncommon French at frequency #59,602 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ̃.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rinceau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rinceaux in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rinceaux, spelled R-I-N-C-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rinceau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rinceaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des rinceaux ornent les bords et avec sa taille modeste elle ressemble presque à une clef qui ouvrirait une malle, ou un coffre de pirate, ou la petite porte d'Alice vers les jardins du pays des merveilles.
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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