rambuteau
\ʁɑ̃.by.to\
The verdict
“rambuteau” is uncommon French (frequency #87,076 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,076
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vespasienne, urinoir public.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rambuteau · rambuteau · French
rambuteau · rank #87,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,076
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rajoutons
Nearest frequency peer: rajoutons (-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 « rambuteau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raflent
raflent
12,929 corpus weight
- ragondin
ragondin
12,928 corpus weight
- raina
raina
12,927 corpus weight
- rajoutons
rajoutons
12,926 corpus weight
- rambuteau
rambuteau
12,925 corpus weight
- rasez
rasez
12,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rambuteau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rambuteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.by.to\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rambuteau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rambuteau is uncommon French at frequency #87,076 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.by.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vespasienne, urinoir public.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rambuteau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rambuteau, spelled R-A-M-B-U-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Vespasienne, urinoir public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rambuteau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une jeune femme à sa propriétaire en lui montrant par sa fenêtre un rambuteau qu'on aperçoit sur la place : Un grand inconvénient de l'appartement, c'est pour une jeune personne d'avoir ce machin-là devant sa fenêtre.
Sans mot dire, le brave Sauveteur s'élance à la tête du cheval, qui l'entraîne dans un rambuteau situé au coin de la rue de Grammont, où il s’arrête.
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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