rincer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,798
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
rincer is aFrenchverb. It means: Nettoyer, laver et en frottant, en parlant des bouteilles, des verres, des tasses et de quelques autres vases. Pronounced \ʁɛ̃.se\. Often confused with river and Riner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rincer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rincer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,798 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for rincer, with forms such as "irncer", "ricner", and "rinccer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "river", "Riner", "ruiner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rincer, spelled R-I-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer, laver et en frottant, en parlant des bouteilles, des verres, des tasses et de quelques autres vases.
- 2Faire un dernier lavage dans de l’eau sans savon, éventuellement à un pH non neutre, comme dernière opération pour évacuer les agents de nettoyage.
- 3Laver, se désaltérer, humecter, boire.
- 4Frapper quelqu'un, lui administrer une bastonnade, une rincée.
- 5Offrir à boire à quelqu'un, payer à sa place sa consommation
- 6Voler, dérober.
- 7Fatiguer, exténuer, épuiser.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irncer,ricner,rinccer,rincerr,rincre,rinecr,rinncer,rnicer,rrincer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "rincer"
Frequency rank: #25,798 in French
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