Rio de Janeiro
\ʁi.jo də ʒa.ne.ʁo\
The verdict
“Rio de Janeiro” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville du sud-est du Brésil; capitale du Brésil jusqu’au 21 avril 1960.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rio de Janeiro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.jo də ʒa.ne.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rio de Janeiro” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Rio de Janeiro is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi.jo də ʒa.ne.ʁo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Rio de Janeiro in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Rio de Janeiro, spelled R-I-O- -D-E- -J-A-N-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville du sud-est du Brésil; capitale du Brésil jusqu’au 21 avril 1960.
- 2Un des États fédérés du Brésil, situé à l’est de la région Sudeste.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Rio de Janeiro”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-I-O- -D-E- -J-A-N-E-I-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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