rou
\ʁu\
The verdict
“rou” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,169) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,169
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de rohu (poisson).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rou · rou · French
rou · rank #48,169 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,169
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rondeurs
Nearest frequency peer: rondeurs (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rou »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Rivard
Rivard
51,836 corpus weight
- riveraines
riveraines
51,835 corpus weight
- rompues
rompues
51,834 corpus weight
- rondeurs
rondeurs
51,833 corpus weight
- rou
rou
51,832 corpus weight
- rouet
rouet
51,831 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rou » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rou »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rou is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁu\. Frequency #48,169 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Synonyme de rohu (poisson).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rou, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rou, spelled R-O-U.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de rohu (poisson).
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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