ronce

/\ʁɔ̃s\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,895

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ronce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d'arbustes aiguillonnés (Rubus spp.) et rampant, de la famille des Rosacées qui pousse dans les haies et dans les bois et qui porte un fruit multiple nommé mûre qui pe... Pronounced \ʁɔ̃s\.

Key facts for ronce
PropertyValue
Headwordronce
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ̃s\
Letters5
Frequency rank#56,895
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ronce in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ronce is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #56,895 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for ronce in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is ronce, spelled R-O-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d'arbustes aiguillonnés (Rubus spp.) et rampant, de la famille des Rosacées qui pousse dans les haies et dans les bois et qui porte un fruit multiple nommé mûre qui peut être confondu avec le fruit composé du mûrier et appelé également pour cette raison mûre sauvage.
  2. 2
    Difficultés ; désagréments que l’on rencontre.
  3. 3
    Fil de fer barbelé, nommé aussi ronce artificielle ou ronde d'acier ; morceau de fil de fer barbelé.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #56,895 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ronce"?
"ronce" is spelled R-O-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ̃s\.
What does "ronce" mean?
As a noun, "ronce" means: Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d'arbustes aiguillonnés (Rubus spp.) et rampant, de la famille des Rosacées qui pousse dans les haies et dans les bois et qui porte un fruit multiple nommé mûre qui pe...
How do you pronounce "ronce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ronce" is \ʁɔ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ronce" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.