rouille
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,664
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
rouille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matière friable, composée d’hydroxyde de fer, qui se forme sur les métaux ferreux par oxydation au contact de l’eau et de l’air. Pronounced \ʁuj\. Often confused with roulé and ruelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁuj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouille is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁuj\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,664 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rouille, with forms such as "oruille", "roiulle", and "rouile". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "roulé", "ruelle", "roulée", 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 rouille, spelled R-O-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matière friable, composée d’hydroxyde de fer, qui se forme sur les métaux ferreux par oxydation au contact de l’eau et de l’air.
- 2Le fait de se transformer en rouille, pour un objet en fer ou en acier. Le processus de transformation.
- 3Oxyde de cuivre et oxyde de quelques autres métaux.
- 4Les parties d’une glace où le tain est altéré, terni par l’humidité.
- 5Les causes d’altération, de dégradation, de vétusté.
- 6Couleur évoquant celle de la rouille.
- 7Sauce froide provençale qui accompagne la soupe de poisson ou la bouillabaisse.
- 8Maladie cryptogamique des végétaux supérieurs, dont il existe de nombreuses variantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oruille,roiulle,rouile,rouilel,roulile,rrouille,ruoille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rouille
Misspelling Variants of "rouille"
Frequency rank: #19,664 in French
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