Romainville
\ʁɔ.mɛ̃.vil\
The verdict
“Romainville” is uncommon French (frequency #56,894 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,894
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romainville · Romainville · French
Romainville · rank #56,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,894
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rodríguez
Nearest frequency peer: Rodríguez (-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 « Romainville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rochet
rochet
43,109 corpus weight
- Rodríguez
Rodríguez
43,108 corpus weight
- Romainville
Romainville
43,107 corpus weight
- ronce
ronce
43,106 corpus weight
- RPs
RPs
43,104 corpus weight
- râleur
râleur
43,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Romainville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Romainville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɛ̃.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Romainville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Romainville is uncommon French at frequency #56,894 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁɔ.mɛ̃.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Romainville, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Romainville, spelled R-O-M-A-I-N-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Romainville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2010, la pollution importante des sols et de la nappe phréatique de son usine de Romainville a obligé l’Ademe, d’Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie, à dépenser plus de 1,2 million d’euros pour reloger des riverains.
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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