roué
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,421
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
roué is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie le bois du cerf, lorsqu’il est serré et peu ouvert. Pronounced \ʁwe\. Often confused with ru and rue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁwe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roué is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁwe\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,421 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for roué, with forms such as "orué", "roue", and "roéu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ru", "rue", "roy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 roué, spelled R-O-U-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie le bois du cerf, lorsqu’il est serré et peu ouvert.
- 2Qui est sans principes, sans scrupules, dont la conduite est désordonnée.
- 3Qui a subi le supplice de la roue.
- 4Qui est rompu de fatigue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orué,roue,roéu,rroué,ruoé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for roué
Misspelling Variants of "roué"
Frequency rank: #46,421 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: