ris de veau
\ʁi də vo\
The verdict
“ris de veau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thymus de veau utilisé dans différentes préparations culinaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ris-de-veau · ris de veau · French
ris de veau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ris de veau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi də vo\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ris de veau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ris de veau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi də vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ris de veau, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ris de veau, spelled R-I-S- -D-E- -V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Thymus de veau utilisé dans différentes préparations culinaires.
- 2Fruit du aki.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ris de veau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cottard, docile, avait dit à la Patronne : « Bouleversez-vous comme ça et vous me ferez demain 39 de fièvre », comme il aurait dit à la cuisinière : « Vous me ferez demain du ris de veau. » La médecine, faute de guérir, s'occupe à changer le sens des verbes et des pronoms.
L’enfant se souviendra toujours qu’ayant refusé un des plats qu’on lui monte sur un plateau (il s’agissait, je crois, de ris de veau), on le laissa à jeun deux jours d’affilée, jusqu’à ce que la faim lui ait fait manger jusqu’au dernier morceau du mets qui lui répugnait.
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.