riv
\ˈriw\
The verdict
“riv” is uncommon French (frequency #91,114 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,114
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Froid (ressenti).
Corpus desk
Index FR-riv · riv · French
riv · rank #91,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,114
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rohr
Nearest frequency peer: Rohr (+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 « riv »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rian
rian
8,891 corpus weight
- riddim
riddim
8,890 corpus weight
- riv
riv
8,887 corpus weight
- Rohr
Rohr
8,886 corpus weight
- rone
rone
8,884 corpus weight
- roro
roro
8,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « riv » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riv |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈriw\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « riv » en français
Rare enough to double-check
riv is uncommon French at frequency #91,114 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈriw\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Froid (ressenti).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for riv, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is riv, spelled R-I-V.
Definition
- 1Froid (ressenti).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how riv appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Evit kavout al liv Ar stumm a gaso kuit ar riv
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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