r’ouvrir
\ʁu.vʁiʁ\
The verdict
“r’ouvrir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique tombée en désuétude de rouvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-r-ouvrir · r’ouvrir · French
r’ouvrir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | r’ouvrir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.vʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
r’ouvrir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁu.vʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique tombée en désuétude de rouvrir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for r’ouvrir in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is r’ouvrir, spelled R-’-O-U-V-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique tombée en désuétude de rouvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how r’ouvrir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
sur le besoin de panser rarement les playes où l’on examine deux questions ; la première, s’il est plus à propos de les r’ouvrir tous les jours ou de les laisser plusieurs jours sans y toucher.
Il faut donc r’ouvrir ces canaux, si l’on veut redonner la vie à la fabrication et au commerce des fers ; […].
This word in other languages
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