roupillon
\ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“roupillon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Somme, sieste. Ne s’emploie le plus souvent qu’à la suite du verbe piquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roupillon · roupillon · French
roupillon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roupillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roupillon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roupillon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Somme, sieste. Ne s’emploie le plus souvent qu’à la suite du verbe piquer.".
roupillon has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is roupillon, spelled R-O-U-P-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Somme, sieste. Ne s’emploie le plus souvent qu’à la suite du verbe piquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roupillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kovaliov entra chez lui au moment où il s’étendait, grognait et disait : “Ah, un petit roupillon de deux heures !”
Si Billy avait été capable d’un tel choix, il est probable qu’il aurait élu comme exemple de félicité suprême son petit roupillon inondé de soleil au fond de la voiture à cheval.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.