rouer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#77,888
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
rouer is aFrenchverb. It means: Punir du supplice de la roue. Pronounced \ʁwe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁwe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁwe\. Corpus data places it at rank #77,888 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rouer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 rouer, spelled R-O-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Punir du supplice de la roue.
- 2Était utilisé dans l’expression « il se fera rouer » pour caractériser quelqu’un qui a risqué de se faire écraser (rouler dessus) par un chariot ou une voiture.
- 3Battre, dans l’expression rouer de coups.
- 4Être rompu par la fatigue, comme quelqu’un qui aurait subi le supplice de la roue.
Frequency rank: #77,888 in French
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