roupie
\ʁu.pi\
The verdict
“roupie” is uncommon French (frequency #64,059 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,059
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Goutte qui pend au nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roupie · roupie · French
roupie · rank #64,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,059
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rougeâtres
Nearest frequency peer: rougeâtres (-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 « roupie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roturier
roturier
35,945 corpus weight
- roturiers
roturiers
35,944 corpus weight
- rougeâtres
rougeâtres
35,943 corpus weight
- roupie
roupie
35,942 corpus weight
- roussin
roussin
35,941 corpus weight
- réacs
réacs
35,939 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roupie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roupie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.pi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roupie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roupie is uncommon French at frequency #64,059 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
roupie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 roupie, spelled R-O-U-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Goutte qui pend au nez.
- 2Goutte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roupie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avoir la roupie au nez.
Il lui coule perpétuellement du nez une roupie qu’il recueille dans un mouchoir rouge, grand comme un drap.
This word in other languages
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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