ronin
\ʁo.nin\
The verdict
“ronin” is uncommon French (frequency #65,475 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,475
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Samouraï sans maître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ronin · ronin · French
ronin · rank #65,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,475
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rongeait
Nearest frequency peer: rongeait (-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 « ronin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roig
roig
34,529 corpus weight
- rongeait
rongeait
34,527 corpus weight
- ronin
ronin
34,526 corpus weight
- ronronnement
ronronnement
34,525 corpus weight
- Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld
34,524 corpus weight
- rota
rota
34,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ronin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ronin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.nin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ronin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ronin is uncommon French at frequency #65,475 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁo.nin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Samouraï sans maître.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ronin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ronin, spelled R-O-N-I-N.
Definition
- 1Samouraï sans maître.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ronin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une belle série encore, est celle où Outamaro se fait l’interprète de la préface de l’Histoire des ronins, qui dit : « une nation où les actes de noblesse et de courage des hardis samourai, ne seraient pas publiés, serait comparable à une nuit sombre, dans l’obscurité de laquelle on ne verrait pas scintiller une étoile »
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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