risquais
\ʁis.kɛ\
The verdict
“risquais” is uncommon French (frequency #65,470 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,470
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-risquais · risquais · French
risquais · rank #65,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,470
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Robuchon
Nearest frequency peer: Robuchon (+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 « risquais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rhonda
Rhonda
34,535 corpus weight
- Richert
Richert
34,534 corpus weight
- rieurs
rieurs
34,533 corpus weight
- risquais
risquais
34,531 corpus weight
- Robuchon
Robuchon
34,530 corpus weight
- roig
roig
34,529 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « risquais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | risquais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁis.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « risquais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
risquais is uncommon French at frequency #65,470 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁis.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
risquais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is risquais, spelled R-I-S-Q-U-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
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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