Rivarol
\ʁi.va.ʁol\
The verdict
“Rivarol” is uncommon French (frequency #55,569 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,569
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rivarol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.va.ʁol\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rivarol” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rivarol is uncommon French at frequency #55,569 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁi.va.ʁol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rivarol, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Rivarol, spelled R-I-V-A-R-O-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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Using “Rivarol”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-I-V-A-R-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.