rink
\ɹɪŋk\
The verdict
“rink” is uncommon French (frequency #93,187 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,187
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patinoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rink · rink · French
rink · rank #93,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,187
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rimmel
Nearest frequency peer: rimmel (-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 « rink »
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 « rink » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪŋk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rink » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rink is uncommon French at frequency #93,187 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Patinoire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rink, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 rink, spelled R-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Patinoire.
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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