ronce
\ʁɔ̃s\
The verdict
“ronce” is uncommon French (frequency #56,895 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,895
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ronce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ronce” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ronce is uncommon French at frequency #56,895 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ronce, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ronce, spelled R-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nom 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.
- 2Difficultés ; désagréments que l’on rencontre.
- 3Fil de fer barbelé, nommé aussi ronce artificielle ou ronde d'acier ; morceau de fil de fer barbelé.
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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Using “ronce”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-O-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɔ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.