rincée
\ʁɛ̃.se\
The verdict
“rincée” is uncommon French (frequency #97,371 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,371
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluie, averse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rincee · rincée · French
rincée · rank #97,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rirait
Nearest frequency peer: rirait (+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 « rincée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revivra
revivra
2,635 corpus weight
- rincée
rincée
2,630 corpus weight
- rirait
rirait
2,628 corpus weight
- Risso
Risso
2,627 corpus weight
- rivalisaient
rivalisaient
2,626 corpus weight
- rodet
rodet
2,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rincée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rincée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rincée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rincée is uncommon French at frequency #97,371 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rincée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rincée, spelled R-I-N-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Pluie, averse.
- 2Correction, bastonnade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rincée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce n’est pas tant la rincée de l’orage qui me refroidit, mais ce pressentiment qui s’accroche à moi.
Se prendre une rincée.
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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