ruleta rusa
[ruˈlet̪a ˈrusa]
The verdict
“ruleta rusa” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Juego potencialmente mortal, que consiste en que un jugador coloque una o más balas dentro de un tambor de revólver, gire el cilindro (sin ver en dónde quedó el proyectil), coloque el cañón en su s...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruleta rusa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ruˈlet̪a ˈrusa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ruleta rusa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ruleta rusa is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ruˈlet̪a ˈrusa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Juego potencialmente mortal, que consiste en que un jugador coloque una o más balas dentro de un tambor de revólver, gire el cilindro (sin ver en dónde quedó el proyectil), coloque el cañón en su s...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ruleta rusa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ruleta rusa, spelled R-U-L-E-T-A- -R-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juego potencialmente mortal, que consiste en que un jugador coloque una o más balas dentro de un tambor de revólver, gire el cilindro (sin ver en dónde quedó el proyectil), coloque el cañón en su sien y presione el gatillo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ruleta rusa”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-U-L-E-T-A- -R-U-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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