run
\ʁœn\
The verdict
“run” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,908) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,908
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de l’étendue de pâturages, en Australie, accordée aux propriétaires de troupeaux de moutons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-run · run · French
run · rank #9,908 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,908
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH requin
Nearest frequency peer: requin (-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 « run »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- remets
remets
90,097 corpus weight
- reportages
reportages
90,095 corpus weight
- requin
requin
90,094 corpus weight
- run
run
90,093 corpus weight
- répandue
répandue
90,090 corpus weight
- sentiers
sentiers
90,089 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « run » 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 | run |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁœn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « run »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for run is neighbouring look-alikes ("RV", "Ry", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁœn\. Frequency #9,908 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for run, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "Ry", "rus", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is run, spelled R-U-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de l’étendue de pâturages, en Australie, accordée aux propriétaires de troupeaux de moutons.
- 2Rodéo urbain, course sauvage.
- 3Figure de stunt consistant pour une moto à effectuer un burn tout en roulant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how run appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Melbourne Argus nous apporte de tristes détails sur les pertes immenses que la sécheresse a causées aux runs australiens.
Aux beaux jours, des centaines de spectateurs assistent aux runs des motards.
This word in other languages
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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