rouillés
\ʁu.je\
The verdict
“rouillés” is uncommon French (frequency #61,108 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,108
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de rouillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouilles · rouillés · French
rouillés · rank #61,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,108
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rope
Nearest frequency peer: rope (-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 « rouillés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ronflements
ronflements
38,896 corpus weight
- rongés
rongés
38,895 corpus weight
- rope
rope
38,894 corpus weight
- rouillés
rouillés
38,893 corpus weight
- rozon
rozon
38,892 corpus weight
- RTA
RTA
38,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rouillés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouillés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rouillés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rouillés is uncommon French at frequency #61,108 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de rouillé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rouillés, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rouillés, spelled R-O-U-I-L-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de rouillé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rouillés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voyait aussi de vieilles bouteilles, dont plusieurs de spécialités pharmaceutiques, des caisses, une faucardeuse en mauvais état, des outils rouillés et des paquets ficelés d’anciens numéros d’un journal amusant qui, détrempés par la pluie, séchés et décolorés par le soleil, souillés de terre, faisaient pitoyable figure.
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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