rabrouer
\ʁa.bʁu.e\
The verdict
“rabrouer” is uncommon French (frequency #95,211 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,211
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rebuter quelqu’un avec rudesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rabrouer · rabrouer · French
rabrouer · rank #95,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,211
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quinquagénair…
Nearest frequency peer: quinquagénaires (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rabrouer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quattrocento
quattrocento
4,793 corpus weight
- quinquagéna…
quinquagénaires
4,791 corpus weight
- rabrouer
rabrouer
4,790 corpus weight
- rach
rach
4,789 corpus weight
- raconterait
raconterait
4,788 corpus weight
- radicalisées
radicalisées
4,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rabrouer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabrouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.bʁu.e\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rabrouer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rabrouer is uncommon French at frequency #95,211 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.bʁu.e\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rebuter quelqu’un avec rudesse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rabrouer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rabrouer, spelled R-A-B-R-O-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rebuter quelqu’un avec rudesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rabrouer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ce sera à vous, monsieur Jean-Louis, de lui parler du bon Dieu, avait dit Joséfa, moi, il me rabrouerait, vous pensez ! »
[…], il s’effaçait le plus possible, aussi gêné que s’il eût mendié; ce qui n’empêchait pas que des bourgeois ne le rabrouassent avec hauteur, et qu’il ne fût menacé de la police par des domestiques, aussi bouffis que leurs maîtres.
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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