RSS
\ɛ.ʁ‿ɛ.s‿ɛs\
The verdict
“RSS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,666) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,666
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Famille de formats de données utilisés pour la syndication de contenu Web.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rss · RSS · French
RSS · rank #19,666 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,666
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rouvrir
Nearest frequency peer: rouvrir (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « RSS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Roissy
Roissy
80,338 corpus weight
- rouille
rouille
80,337 corpus weight
- rouvrir
rouvrir
80,336 corpus weight
- RSS
RSS
80,335 corpus weight
- rubriques
rubriques
80,334 corpus weight
- ruby
ruby
80,333 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « RSS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | RSS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁ‿ɛ.s‿ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « RSS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for RSS is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "ru", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛ.ʁ‿ɛ.s‿ɛs\. Frequency #19,666 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Famille de formats de données utilisés pour la syndication de contenu Web.".
RSS has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "ru", "RV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is RSS, spelled R-S-S.
Definition
- 1Famille de formats de données utilisés pour la syndication de contenu Web.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).