rivals
\ˈɹaɪ.vəlz\
The verdict
“rivals” is uncommon French (frequency #81,515 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,515
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rival.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rivals · rivals · French
rivals · rank #81,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,515
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhéteur
Nearest frequency peer: rhéteur (-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 « rivals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retransmises
retransmises
18,490 corpus weight
- revoyons
revoyons
18,489 corpus weight
- rhinos
rhinos
18,488 corpus weight
- rhéteur
rhéteur
18,487 corpus weight
- rivals
rivals
18,486 corpus weight
- Rodés
Rodés
18,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rivals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rivals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹaɪ.vəlz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rivals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rivals is uncommon French at frequency #81,515 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹaɪ.vəlz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rival.".
rivals has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rivals, spelled R-I-V-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rival.
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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