Which to use
“rigolais” and “rigolait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,845
- “rigolais” frequency rank
- #42,015
- “rigolait” frequency rank
- 87860
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rigolais | rigolait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rigoler. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rigoler. |
Same sound, different letters: rigolais vs rigolait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. rigolais and rigolait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - rigolais / rigolait
This is the hard kind. rigolais and rigolait are pronounced identically (\ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “rigolais” becomes t in “rigolait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87860, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rigolais is recorded at frequency rank #45,845, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ\. rigolait is at rank #42,015, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 87860, this pair ranks #7,705 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of rigolais vs rigolait
Shared letters: agilor. Private to "rigolais": s. Private to "rigolait": t.
"rigolais" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "rigolait" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "rigolais" vs "rigolait" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"rigolais" and "rigolait" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "rigolais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rigolait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #7,705 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rigolais" and "rigolait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rigolais vs rigolant". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #7,705 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.