rouspéter
\ʁus.pe.te\
The verdict
“rouspéter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - Manifester sa mauvaise humeur, son mécontentement, maugréer, protester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouspeter · rouspéter · French
rouspéter · 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 | rouspéter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁus.pe.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rouspéter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rouspéter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁus.pe.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manifester sa mauvaise humeur, son mécontentement, maugréer, protester.".
rouspéter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rouspéter, spelled R-O-U-S-P-É-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Manifester sa mauvaise humeur, son mécontentement, maugréer, protester.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rouspéter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a rouspété quand le patron lui a dit qu’il n’aurait pas d’augmentation cette année.
13 août 1940 – J’adore rouspéter. Ne réussissant jamais à me mettre en colère, ce petit filet de mauvaise humeur me libère
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.