roudoudou
French, noun\ʁu.du.du\
roudoudou is spelled R-O-U-D-O-U-D-O-U (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 117,104th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Roudoudou is a French masculine noun meaning “candy consisting of hard caramel set in a small container, usually a plastic or real seashell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Confiserie constituée de caramel coloré coulé dans un contenant individuel de petite taille, habituellement…”.
What does roudoudou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecandy consisting of hard caramel set in a small container, usually a plastic or real seashell
Marie-Jeanne lèche son roudoudou avec délectation.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Confiserie constituée de caramel coloré coulé dans un contenant individuel de petite taille, habituellement une coquille de coquillage.
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 roudoudou
- roudoudous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce roudoudou?
- \ʁu.du.du\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is roudoudou in French?
roudoudou appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).