rouillée
\ʁu.je\
The verdict
“rouillée” is uncommon French (frequency #52,967 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,967
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une espèce d'insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des géométridés (Geometridae), d'Eurasie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouillee · rouillée · French
rouillée · rank #52,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosine
Nearest frequency peer: Rosine (-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 « rouillée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- robotisation
robotisation
47,038 corpus weight
- rondement
rondement
47,037 corpus weight
- ronflement
ronflement
47,036 corpus weight
- Rosine
Rosine
47,035 corpus weight
- rouillée
rouillée
47,034 corpus weight
- régnante
régnante
47,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rouillée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouillée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rouillée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rouillée is uncommon French at frequency #52,967 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une espèce d'insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des géométridés (Geometridae), d'Eurasie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rouillée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rouillée, spelled R-O-U-I-L-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Une espèce d'insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des géométridés (Geometridae), d'Eurasie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rouillée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chenille de la rouillée est polyphage.
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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