Riquewihr
\ʁi.k(ə).viːʁ\
The verdict
“Riquewihr” is uncommon French (frequency #96,327 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,327
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riquewihr · Riquewihr · French
Riquewihr · rank #96,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,327
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigo
Nearest frequency peer: rigo (-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 « Riquewihr »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revanches
revanches
3,678 corpus weight
- rhumatismal…
rhumatismales
3,677 corpus weight
- rigo
rigo
3,675 corpus weight
- Riquewihr
Riquewihr
3,674 corpus weight
- Risle
Risle
3,673 corpus weight
- Riyadh
Riyadh
3,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Riquewihr » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Riquewihr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.k(ə).viːʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Riquewihr » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Riquewihr is uncommon French at frequency #96,327 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁi.k(ə).viːʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Riquewihr, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Riquewihr, spelled R-I-Q-U-E-W-I-H-R.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
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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