rire
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,375
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rire is aFrenchverb. It means: Marquer un sentiment de gaieté par un mouvement de la bouche accompagné souvent de bruit et par une expression correspondante des regards et des traits du visage. Pronounced \ʁiʁ\. It ranks #1,375 in French word frequency. Often confused with rue and riz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rire is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,375 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rire, with forms such as "irre", "rier", and "rirre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "riz", "ris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 rire, spelled R-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marquer un sentiment de gaieté par un mouvement de la bouche accompagné souvent de bruit et par une expression correspondante des regards et des traits du visage.
- 2Se divertir ; se réjouir.
- 3Railler ; badiner ; ne pas parler ou ne pas agir sérieusement.
- 4Être agréable, plaire, en parlant des choses.
- 5(indirect) Ne pas se soucier de quelque chose ; témoigner qu’on n’en tient pas de compte, qu’on ne s’en soucie pas ; s’en moquer.
- 6(indirect) Être favorable.
- 7Se divertir.
- 8Se moquer de quelqu’un.
- 9Ne pas tenir compte d’une chose, la mépriser.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irre,rier,rirre,rrie,rrire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rire
Misspelling Variants of "rire"
Frequency rank: #1,375 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "rire"?
What does "rire" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "rire"?
How do you pronounce "rire"?
What language does "rire" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: