rite
\ʁit\
The verdict
“rite” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,053
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des règles et cérémonies en usage dans une religion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rite · rite · French
rite · rank #13,053 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,053
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigoles
Nearest frequency peer: rigoles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- respectée
respectée
86,951 corpus weight
- rigoles
rigoles
86,949 corpus weight
- rite
rite
86,948 corpus weight
- RP
RP
86,947 corpus weight
- régulateur
régulateur
86,946 corpus weight
- répercussio…
répercussions
86,945 corpus weight
What this shows « rite » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁit\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rite (IPA \ʁit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,053 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rite, with forms such as "irte", "riet", and "ritte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "rue", "riz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 rite, spelled R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des règles et cérémonies en usage dans une religion.
- 2Cérémonies même d’un culte.
- 3Cérémonies propres à une institution.
- 4Ensemble des cérémonies, et organisation des divers degrés qu'il est possible d'acquérir dans l'organisation.
- 5Comportement répétitif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et s'il y a un judaïsme de rite aschkenazi, avec son caractère propre, qui le distingue nettement du judaïsme sefardi, ce n'est pas d'Allemagne qu'il est originaire, mais bien de France.
Il offre des sacrifices, aux autres dieux selon le rite albain, à Hercule selon le rite grec, suivant en cela la règle établie par Évandre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irte
- riet
- ritte
- rrite
- rtie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rite - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).