rousse
\ʁus\
The verdict
“rousse” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,066
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui a les cheveux roux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rousse · rousse · French
rousse · rank #10,066 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,066
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rouleau
Nearest frequency peer: rouleau (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rousse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- resta
resta
89,938 corpus weight
- rochers
rochers
89,937 corpus weight
- rouleau
rouleau
89,936 corpus weight
- rousse
rousse
89,935 corpus weight
- réciproque
réciproque
89,934 corpus weight
- régulières
régulières
89,932 corpus weight
What this shows « rousse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁus\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rousse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rousse (IPA \ʁus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,066 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rousse, with forms such as "orusse", "rosuse", and "rouse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rusé", "russ", "route", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 rousse, spelled R-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui a les cheveux roux.
- 2(Au singulier, avec l'article défini) Police.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sachez, comte Henri, que c'est petit métier de voltairianiser dans les lieux où l’on boit du petit vin : sachez que l’absence de religion fait seule donner de si beaux chevaux à Zora ; et qu’après tout, mieux vaut encore mettre une bête de 15,000 fr. dans l’écurie de cette rousse que de sâouler d’impiété quelques centaines de butors, pour un gage de quinz…
Il s’appelle Christian Pelletier, il habite à Ris-Orangis, et, ce matin, il se tient prudemment en retrait, juste à côté de la jolie rousse qui fait fantasmer tous les gars.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orusse
- rosuse
- rouse
- rouses
- rrousse
- ruosse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rousse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).