rixe

\ʁiks\

/\ʁiks\/ noun

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The verdict

“rixe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,726
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Querelle violente entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, souvent accompagnée de menaces et de coups.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rixe · rixe · French

rixe · rank #28,726 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,726
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH risée

Nearest frequency peer: risée (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rixe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rixe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rixe vs rue
50% similar
rixe vs riz
50% similar
rixe vs rte
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rixe
PropertyValue
Headwordrixe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁiks\
Letters4
Frequency rank#28,726
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rixe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rixese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « risée » (#28,725), « rouvert » (#28,727), « rusé » (#28,728). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rixe » est au #28,726. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around rixe (IPA \ʁiks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,726 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Querelle violente entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, souvent accompagnée de menaces et de coups.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rixe, with forms such as "irxe", "riex", and "rixxe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "riz", "rte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rixe, spelled R-I-X-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Querelle violente entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, souvent accompagnée de menaces et de coups.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rixe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En effet, on ne l’avait jamais vu se fourvoyer dans ces camaraderies des débits de boisson, commencées par les tournées des petits verres et finissant par les rixes sanglantes : […].
  2. Je redoutais une rixe. Une vraie bagarre avec coups de carafe, de chaise et pétarade de revolver. Il ne s’est rien passé.

Synonyms

bagarrebaston

This word in other languages

brawl(English)riña(Español)Rauferei(Deutsch)brega(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irxe
  • riex
  • rixxe
  • rrixe
  • rxie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rixe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

irxe2riex2rixxe1rrixe1rxie2
Edit distance from "rixe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rixe"?
"rixe" is spelled R-I-X-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁiks\.
What does "rixe" mean?
As a noun, "rixe" means: Querelle violente entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, souvent accompagnée de menaces et de coups.
What words are commonly confused with "rixe"?
"rixe" is commonly confused with "rue", "riz", "rte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rixe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rixe" is \ʁiks\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rixe" come from?
"rixe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rixe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rusé#28,728skip#28,749sono#28,751suer#28,765

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

orée5 variantstuile5 variantsYaya5 variantsabbey5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list