roublard
\ʁu.blaʁ\
The verdict
“roublard” is uncommon French (frequency #66,310 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,310
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plein d’astuce, malin, rusé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roublard · roublard · French
roublard · rank #66,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,310
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Roulers
Nearest frequency peer: Roulers (+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 « roublard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rodier
Rodier
33,695 corpus weight
- Romanov
Romanov
33,694 corpus weight
- roublard
roublard
33,691 corpus weight
- Roulers
Roulers
33,690 corpus weight
- roz
roz
33,688 corpus weight
- réajustement
réajustement
33,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roublard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roublard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁu.blaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roublard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roublard is uncommon French at frequency #66,310 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁu.blaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plein d’astuce, malin, rusé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for roublard in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roublard, spelled R-O-U-B-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Plein d’astuce, malin, rusé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roublard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu d'indicibles tripotages, ce grotesque filou n'abdiquait aucune de ses anciennes prétentions, et on retrouvait toujours en lui le désopilant roublard qui fit offrir, un jour, au comte de Chambord, de se convertir publiquement au catholicisme, si on le faisait marquis.
Duranthon, roublard nouveau jeu, enlevait aux métayers leurs dernières libertés, les réduisait au rôle de machines à travail.
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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