riz
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,181
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
riz is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dénomination usuelle des plantes du genre Oryza de la famille des Poacées, céréale cultivée dans les terres humides et marécageuses des pays chauds. Pronounced \ʁi\. It ranks #4,181 in French word frequency. Often confused with RT and RP.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for riz is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for riz in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is riz, spelled R-I-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #4,181 in French
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