roucoulis
\ʁu.ku.li\
The verdict
“roucoulis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roucoulade, roucoulement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roucoulis · roucoulis · French
roucoulis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roucoulis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.ku.li\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roucoulis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roucoulis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.ku.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roucoulade, roucoulement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roucoulis, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is roucoulis, spelled R-O-U-C-O-U-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Roucoulade, roucoulement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roucoulis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelquefois, de ce temps, il les amusait d’un petit roucoulis de colombe, d’un petit pas espagnol, d’un mouvement de tête calculé pour faire mousser cette crinière soyeuse qu’il avait, toujours peignée recta et propre comme un sou.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.