roupiller
\ʁu.pi.je\
The verdict
“roupiller” is uncommon French (frequency #85,237 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,237
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dormir ; faire un somme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roupiller · roupiller · French
roupiller · rank #85,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,237
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rosebud
Nearest frequency peer: rosebud (-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 « roupiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rockeuse
rockeuse
14,769 corpus weight
- rosebud
rosebud
14,765 corpus weight
- roupiller
roupiller
14,764 corpus weight
- ruz
ruz
14,762 corpus weight
- RVB
RVB
14,761 corpus weight
- récapitulat…
récapitulation
14,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roupiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roupiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.pi.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roupiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roupiller is uncommon French at frequency #85,237 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁu.pi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dormir ; faire un somme.".
roupiller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is roupiller, spelled R-O-U-P-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dormir ; faire un somme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roupiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il roupille à poings fermés.
Il n’y a rien qui me berce comme le bruit de la pluie qui tombe. Je commence donc à roupiller.
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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