rougette
\ʁu.ʒɛt\
The verdict
“rougette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de salade au feuillage vert marqué de rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rougette · rougette · French
rougette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rougette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.ʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rougette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.ʒɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
rougette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rougette, spelled R-O-U-G-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de salade au feuillage vert marqué de rouge.
- 2Autre nom de la roussette à collet rouge (Pteropus subniger), espèce aujourd’hui éteinte de renard volant qui vivait autrefois à la Réunion et à l’île Maurice et dans les Mascareignes.
- 3Autre nom de la pomme de terre francine.
- 4Variété d’olive.
- 5Nom vernaculaire ancien de l’adventice culturale mélampyre des champs. (Melampyrum arvense).
- 6Cépage donnant du raisin noir, il ne fait pas partie des espèces autorisées en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rougette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rates, charlottes, la francine appelée aussi rougette, pompadour, belle-de-fontenay, timate… n’ont pas de secrets pour ce producteur passionné de pommes de terre.
La rougette de l'Ardèche.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.