rioja
\rjo.xa\
The verdict
“rioja” is uncommon French (frequency #66,304 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,304
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin rouge espagnol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rioja · rioja · French
rioja · rank #66,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,304
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhésus
Nearest frequency peer: rhésus (-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 « rioja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retriever
retriever
33,700 corpus weight
- Rha
Rha
33,699 corpus weight
- rhésus
rhésus
33,698 corpus weight
- rioja
rioja
33,697 corpus weight
- rocambolesq…
rocambolesques
33,696 corpus weight
- Rodier
Rodier
33,695 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rioja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rioja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rjo.xa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rioja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rioja is uncommon French at frequency #66,304 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \rjo.xa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin rouge espagnol.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rioja in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 rioja, spelled R-I-O-J-A.
Definition
- 1Vin rouge espagnol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rioja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les vins, fruits de la vigne et du travail des hommes – irouléguy, rioja, buzet, madiran – sont dans Hautacam, prêts à réchauffer nos balèzes gosiers.
This word in other languages
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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