rongeur

\ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\

/\ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“rongeur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,444. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,444
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mammifère à dents incisives, sans canines.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rongeur · rongeur · French

rongeur · rank #33,444 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,444
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rompue

Nearest frequency peer: rompue (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rongeur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rongeur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rongeur vs routeur
71% similar
rongeur vs rougeur
86% similar
rongeur vs rongeurs
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rongeur
PropertyValue
Headwordrongeur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#33,444
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rongeur »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rongeurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rompue » (#33,443), « roseaux » (#33,445), « Rosenberg » (#33,446). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rongeur » est au #33,444. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around rongeur (IPA \ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,444 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rongeur, with forms such as "orngeur", "rnogeur", and "rogneur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "routeur", "rougeur", "rongeurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 rongeur, spelled R-O-N-G-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mammifère à dents incisives, sans canines.
  2. 2
    Mammifère de l’ordre Rodentia.
  3. 3
    Compteur d’un taxi.
  4. 4
    Taxi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rongeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quant aux poils des carnivores et des rongeurs, ils fournissent à l’industrie la plus grande partie des substances employées pour faire des feutres, notamment dans la chapellerie.
  2. […], il n’est de bruit qu’un ver qui taraude incessamment les boiseries et dans le plafond, la course d’un rongeur.

This word in other languages

rodent(English)roedor(Español)Nagetier(Deutsch)roedor(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orngeur
  • rnogeur
  • rogneur
  • ronegur
  • rongeru
  • rongeurr
  • ronggeur
  • ronguer
  • ronngeur
  • rrongeur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rongeur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

orngeur2rnogeur2rogneur2ronegur2rongeru2rongeurr1ronggeur1ronguer2
Edit distance from "rongeur"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rongeur"?
"rongeur" is spelled R-O-N-G-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\.
What does "rongeur" mean?
As a noun, "rongeur" means: Mammifère à dents incisives, sans canines.
What words are commonly confused with "rongeur"?
"rongeur" is commonly confused with "routeur", "rougeur", "rongeurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rongeur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rongeur" is \ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rongeur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rongeur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

roseaux#33,445reculés#33,432recourt#33,431saluant#33,459

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

pètent10 variantstartuffe10 variantstrousseau10 variantstumulte10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list