RMS
\ˌɑɹ.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\
The verdict
“RMS” is uncommon French (frequency #61,853 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,853
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation précédant le nom de paquebots de la Grande-Bretagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rms · RMS · French
RMS · rank #61,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,853
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Riri
Nearest frequency peer: Riri (-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 « RMS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reverras
reverras
38,151 corpus weight
- Riri
Riri
38,149 corpus weight
- RMS
RMS
38,148 corpus weight
- roberge
roberge
38,147 corpus weight
- robotics
robotics
38,146 corpus weight
- robotiques
robotiques
38,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « RMS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | RMS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌɑɹ.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « RMS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
RMS is uncommon French at frequency #61,853 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌɑɹ.ˌɛm.ˈɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation précédant le nom de paquebots de la Grande-Bretagne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for RMS, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is RMS, spelled R-M-S.
Definition
- 1Abréviation précédant le nom de paquebots de la Grande-Bretagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how RMS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
RMS Titanic, RMS Queen Mary 2.
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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