rites
\ʁit\
The verdict
“rites” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,249
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rites · rites · French
rites · rank #13,249 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,249
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retirés
Nearest frequency peer: retirés (-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 « rites »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- resterait
resterait
86,755 corpus weight
- restitution
restitution
86,754 corpus weight
- retirés
retirés
86,753 corpus weight
- rites
rites
86,752 corpus weight
- romaines
romaines
86,751 corpus weight
- régner
régner
86,749 corpus weight
What this shows « rites » 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 | rites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rites »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rites (IPA \ʁit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,249 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de rite.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rites, with forms such as "irtes", "riets", and "ritess". 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, "RTS", "rte", "rues", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 rites, spelled R-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rite chaldéen ou syrien oriental, fait partie des six familles de rites qui subsistent aujourd’hui avec le rite antiochien (syrien occidental), alexandrin, byzantin, arménien et latin. Ces rites sont communs à la fois aux Églises orientales séparées de Rome et à celles qui lui sont unies.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irtes
- riets
- ritess
- ritse
- rittes
- rrites
- rties
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rites - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).