roussâtre
\ʁu.satʁ\
The verdict
“roussâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #87,113 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,113
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tire sur le roux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roussatre · roussâtre · French
roussâtre · rank #87,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,113
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rougissant
Nearest frequency peer: rougissant (-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 « roussâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rondelet
rondelet
12,892 corpus weight
- roquelaure
roquelaure
12,890 corpus weight
- rougissant
rougissant
12,889 corpus weight
- roussâtre
roussâtre
12,888 corpus weight
- Rouyer
Rouyer
12,886 corpus weight
- rustica
rustica
12,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roussâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roussâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁu.satʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roussâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roussâtre is uncommon French at frequency #87,113 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁu.satʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui tire sur le roux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for roussâtre in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roussâtre, spelled R-O-U-S-S-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tire sur le roux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roussâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une brume roussâtre emplissait le boulevard Beaumarchais.
Il semble à la petite que la longue jupe et la longue écharpe blanches palpitent au vent comme des ailes. Mais les photographies roussâtres sont floues : je ne saurai jamais si cette jupe blanche et cette main secourable n’étaient pas celles de ma bonne.
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); 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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