Rouen
\ʁu.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“Rouen” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,526
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouen · Rouen · French
Rouen · rank #4,526 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,526
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rendus
Nearest frequency peer: rendus (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rouen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- présentant
présentant
95,478 corpus weight
- recommande
recommande
95,477 corpus weight
- rendus
rendus
95,476 corpus weight
- Rouen
Rouen
95,475 corpus weight
- rêver
rêver
95,473 corpus weight
- Stéphane
Stéphane
95,472 corpus weight
What this shows « Rouen » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rouen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rouen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Rouen (IPA \ʁu.ɑ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,526 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rouen, with forms such as "oruen", "roeun", and "rouenn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "run", "rues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Rouen, spelled R-O-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rouen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Rouen, les autorités firent savoir que ceux qui n’accepteraient pas le baptême seraient considérés comme hors-la-loi.
Le lendemain, il prend le château de Damville, à vingt kilomètres de Verneuil, et regagne ensuite Rouen, d’où il envoie aussitôt ses mercenaires en Bretagne, vers Fougères et Dol.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oruen
- roeun
- rouenn
- roune
- rrouen
- ruoen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rouen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).