rivette
\ʁi.vɛt\
The verdict
“rivette” is uncommon French (frequency #88,045 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,045
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de riveter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rivette · rivette · French
rivette · rank #88,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,045
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH riquiqui
Nearest frequency peer: riquiqui (-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 « rivette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rimait
rimait
11,959 corpus weight
- rincez
rincez
11,958 corpus weight
- riquiqui
riquiqui
11,957 corpus weight
- rivette
rivette
11,956 corpus weight
- Rizzuto
Rizzuto
11,955 corpus weight
- romanche
romanche
11,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rivette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rivette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rivette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rivette is uncommon French at frequency #88,045 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.vɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rivette in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rivette, spelled R-I-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de riveter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de riveter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de riveter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de riveter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de riveter.
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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