riz
\ʁi\
The verdict
“riz” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,181 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,181
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dénomination usuelle des plantes du genre Oryza de la famille des Poacées, céréale cultivée dans les terres humides et marécageuses des pays chauds.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “riz” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for riz is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,181 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for riz, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is riz, spelled R-I-Z.
Definition
- 1Dénomination usuelle des plantes du genre Oryza de la famille des Poacées, céréale cultivée dans les terres humides et marécageuses des pays chauds.
- 2Sans autre précision, désigne Oryza sativa qui est l’espèce la plus cultivée et la plus consommé au monde.
- 3Nom donné à diverses plantes (ainsi que leurs graines) qui ressemblent aux riz et sont utilisées de la même manière, comme par exemple le riz sauvage (Zizania palustris, famille des Poacées).
- 4Grain farineux produit par ces plantes.
This word in other languages
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 “riz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-I-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “RT” - see the side-by-side comparison. riz vs RT
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
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.