riz gluant
\ʁi ɡly.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“riz gluant” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 10
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de Oryza sativa var. glutinosa, et de ses graines de couleur noire ou rouge, variété de riz caractérisé par un faible taux d’amylose et par sa teneur élevée en amylopectine qui le rend...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riz gluant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi ɡly.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “riz gluant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for riz gluant is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi ɡly.ɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom vulgaire de Oryza sativa var. glutinosa, et de ses graines de couleur noire ou rouge, variété de riz caractérisé par un faible taux d’amylose et par sa teneur élevée en amylopectine qui le rend...".
No misspelling variants are generated for riz gluant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 gluant, spelled R-I-Z- -G-L-U-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de Oryza sativa var. glutinosa, et de ses graines de couleur noire ou rouge, variété de riz caractérisé par un faible taux d’amylose et par sa teneur élevée en amylopectine qui le rend gluant, collant.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-I-Z- -G-L-U-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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