ronge-maille
\ʁɔ̃ʒ.mɑj\
The verdict
“ronge-maille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rat, rongeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ronge-maille · ronge-maille · French
ronge-maille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ronge-maille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃ʒ.mɑj\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ronge-maille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ronge-maille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ̃ʒ.mɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rat, rongeur.".
ronge-maille has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ronge-maille, spelled R-O-N-G-E---M-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Rat, rongeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ronge-maille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j’atteignais un rat d’un bon coup de fouet, le ronge-maille sifflait avec fureur, hérissait tous ses poils et s’élançait avec désespoir contre le fouet lui-même, instrument de sa torture […]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.