rouche
The verdict
“rouche” is an uncommon French word, ranked #86,130 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,130
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom vulgaire et générique des laiches, du roseau et de l'iris des marais. Ces espèces indésirables, trop dures et sèches, se retrouvent dans les mauvais foins des terres marécageuses, des terres hu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁuʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rouche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouche is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁuʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,130 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for rouche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rouche, spelled R-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire et générique des laiches, du roseau et de l'iris des marais. Ces espèces indésirables, trop dures et sèches, se retrouvent dans les mauvais foins des terres marécageuses, des terres humides proches des rivages maritimes ou souvent plus récemment dans les prairies irriguées mal aménagées. Il existait aussi des rouchères ou marais producteurs de rouches, comme les marais du pays de Retz, les anciens marais poitevins, ou le marais breton en Vendée.
- 2Matière préparée à base de rouche et mise en formes diverses. Tressée à sec, la rouche matière végétale permettait de fabriquer des parois, des paravents ou des couvertures de toit, comme celles des petites maisons que sont les « bourines » du Poitou, également nommées « rouchines » en Vendée de la fin du XVᵉ siècle.
- 3Carex, laîche.
Frequency rank: #86,130 in French
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Using “rouche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-C-H-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁuʃ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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