rouir
\ʁwiʁ\
The verdict
“rouir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire tremper dans l’eau une plante (comme le lin, le chanvre ou le manioc), de manière que les fibres se séparent de la partie ligneuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁwiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rouir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rouir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁwiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire tremper dans l’eau une plante (comme le lin, le chanvre ou le manioc), de manière que les fibres se séparent de la partie ligneuse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rouir, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rouir, spelled R-O-U-I-R.
Definition
- 1Faire tremper dans l’eau une plante (comme le lin, le chanvre ou le manioc), de manière que les fibres se séparent de la partie ligneuse.
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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.
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Using “rouir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁwiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.