rions
\ʁi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“rions” is uncommon French (frequency #51,709 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,709
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rions · rions · French
rions · rank #51,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,709
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rima
Nearest frequency peer: rima (-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 « rions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retentir
retentir
48,295 corpus weight
- ribot
ribot
48,294 corpus weight
- rima
rima
48,293 corpus weight
- rions
rions
48,292 corpus weight
- rivets
rivets
48,291 corpus weight
- rockeur
rockeur
48,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rions is uncommon French at frequency #51,709 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rions, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rions, spelled R-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de rire.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de rire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous rions pour nous désempoussiérer des mille et une préoccupations de la vie quotidienne.
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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