Robuchon
\ʁɔ.by.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“Robuchon” is uncommon French (frequency #65,471 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,471
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nom de famille français
Corpus desk
Index FR-robuchon · Robuchon · French
Robuchon · rank #65,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,471
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH risquais
Nearest frequency peer: risquais (-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 « Robuchon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Richert
Richert
34,534 corpus weight
- rieurs
rieurs
34,533 corpus weight
- risquais
risquais
34,531 corpus weight
- Robuchon
Robuchon
34,530 corpus weight
- roig
roig
34,529 corpus weight
- rongeait
rongeait
34,527 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Robuchon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Robuchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.by.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Robuchon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Robuchon is uncommon French at frequency #65,471 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁɔ.by.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nom de famille français".
Robuchon has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Robuchon, spelled R-O-B-U-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1nom de famille français
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Robuchon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ex-commis met surtout en cause le chef japonais Tomonori Danzaki, fidèle collaborateur de Joël Robuchon avec lequel il a obtenu trois étoiles à Las Vegas et Tokyo, et qui dirige la brigade de La Grande Maison à Bordeaux.
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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