rishi
\ʁi.ʃi\
The verdict
“rishi” is uncommon French (frequency #86,125 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,125
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme saint dans les traditions hindoues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rishi · rishi · French
rishi · rank #86,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,125
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ripaille
Nearest frequency peer: ripaille (-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 « rishi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rets
rets
13,879 corpus weight
- revigorant
revigorant
13,878 corpus weight
- ripaille
ripaille
13,877 corpus weight
- rishi
rishi
13,876 corpus weight
- romandes
romandes
13,875 corpus weight
- roos
roos
13,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rishi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rishi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rishi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rishi is uncommon French at frequency #86,125 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme saint dans les traditions hindoues.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rishi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rishi, spelled R-I-S-H-I.
Definition
- 1Homme saint dans les traditions hindoues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rishi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle te tend une feuille d’ola, une feuille de palme séchée sur laquelle sept rishis auraient écrit le destin de l’humanité tout entière il y a trois mille ans.
Le Sankhya, développé par le rishi Kapila, est un système d’énumération des différentes composantes qui sont la source de l’expression de l’Esprit Cosmique.
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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