rouquine
\ʁu.kin\
The verdict
“rouquine” is uncommon French (frequency #51,100 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,100
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou fille aux cheveux roux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouquine · rouquine · French
rouquine · rank #51,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,100
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réappropriati…
Nearest frequency peer: réappropriation (+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 « rouquine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rivesaltes
Rivesaltes
48,904 corpus weight
- rocha
rocha
48,903 corpus weight
- rouquine
rouquine
48,901 corpus weight
- réappropria…
réappropriation
48,900 corpus weight
- réceptive
réceptive
48,899 corpus weight
- réduc
réduc
48,898 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rouquine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouquine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.kin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rouquine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rouquine is uncommon French at frequency #51,100 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.kin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme ou fille aux cheveux roux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rouquine in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rouquine, spelled R-O-U-Q-U-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme ou fille aux cheveux roux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rouquine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le principal auxiliaire du docteur est Mlle Germaine Soyez, une violente rouquine qui mène les malades à la baguette comme des prisonniers et terrorise les infirmiers militaires qui sont sous ses ordres.
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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