rouge
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#622
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rouge is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est d’une couleur semblable à celle du sang, du coquelicot, de la fraise, etc., dont la longueur d’onde dominante est comprise entre environ 625 et 740 nm. — #E01010 #FF0000 #FF0040 #FF2000 #85... Pronounced \ʁuʒ\. It ranks #622 in French word frequency. Often confused with rue and roux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouge is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁuʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #622 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rouge, with forms such as "oruge", "roueg", and "rougge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "roux", "rude", 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 rouge, spelled R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une couleur semblable à celle du sang, du coquelicot, de la fraise, etc., dont la longueur d’onde dominante est comprise entre environ 625 et 740 nm. — #E01010 #FF0000 #FF0040 #FF2000 #850606
- 2Fortement irrigué de sang, en parlant de la peau humaine.
- 3Dont le sentiment est à son paroxysme.
- 4Dont la température est telle que la couleur est rouge.
- 5Dont l’idéologie est symbolisée par un drapeau rouge, comme le communisme, l’extrême gauche, etc.
- 6Relatif aux peuples amérindiens.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oruge,roueg,rougge,rrouge,ruoge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rouge
Misspelling Variants of "rouge"
Frequency rank: #622 in French
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