rouble
French, noun
rouble is spelled R-O-U-B-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rouble is a French masculine noun meaning “ruble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, roublé is a different word: “past participle of roubler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Monnaie utilisée en Russie, en Biélorussie, etc”.
What does rouble mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineruble
verb
- 1
past participle of roubler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Monnaie utilisée en Russie, en Biélorussie, etc. 2. Rouble russe, monnaie de la Fédération de Russie. Code ISO 4217 : RUB (anciennement RUR). 3. Rouble biélorusse, monnaie de la Biélorussie. Code ISO 4217 : BYN (anciennement BYR, BYB, BYL). 4. Rouble de Transnistrie, monnaie de la Transnistrie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rouble
- roubles plural
- roublée feminine
- roublés masculine plural
- roublées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rouble
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rouble in French?
rouble appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).