rougissant
\ʁu.ʒi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“rougissant” is uncommon French (frequency #87,112 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,112
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui devient rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rougissant · rougissant · French
rougissant · rank #87,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,112
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roquelaure
Nearest frequency peer: roquelaure (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rougissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roku
roku
12,894 corpus weight
- rondelet
rondelet
12,892 corpus weight
- roquelaure
roquelaure
12,890 corpus weight
- rougissant
rougissant
12,889 corpus weight
- roussâtre
roussâtre
12,888 corpus weight
- Rouyer
Rouyer
12,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rougissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rougissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁu.ʒi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rougissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rougissant is uncommon French at frequency #87,112 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁu.ʒi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui devient rouge.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rougissant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 rougissant, spelled R-O-U-G-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui devient rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rougissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un front rougissant.
Des pommes à peine rougissantes.
Synonyms
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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