riveraine
\ʁi.v(ə.)ʁɛn\
The verdict
“riveraine” is uncommon French (frequency #61,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,103
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui habite le long d’une rivière, d’un fleuve ou d’un lac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riveraine · riveraine · French
riveraine · rank #61,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,103
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ripper
Nearest frequency peer: ripper (-2 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 « riveraine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rifle
rifle
38,901 corpus weight
- ripper
ripper
38,900 corpus weight
- riveraine
riveraine
38,898 corpus weight
- ronflements
ronflements
38,896 corpus weight
- rongés
rongés
38,895 corpus weight
- rope
rope
38,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « riveraine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riveraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.v(ə.)ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « riveraine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
riveraine is uncommon French at frequency #61,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.v(ə.)ʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for riveraine, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 riveraine, spelled R-I-V-E-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui habite le long d’une rivière, d’un fleuve ou d’un lac.
- 2Celles qui ont des terrains le long d’une forêt, d’une rue, d’une route, d’une voie ferrée, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how riveraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à celle du comte Schouvaloff, elle s’explique par l’intérêt contraire qu’avait la Russie, et qu’elle a toujours, de maintenir close une mer dont elle est riveraine, et où elle a repris toute sa liberté.
Migrants décédés au Pays basque : l’émotion est vive, une riveraine témoigne
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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