roure
\ʁuʁ\
The verdict
“roure” is uncommon French (frequency #62,600 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,600
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de rouvre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁuʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roure” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
roure is uncommon French at frequency #62,600 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de rouvre.".
roure 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is roure, spelled R-O-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de rouvre.
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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Using “roure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.