rousselet
\ʁus.lɛ\
The verdict
“rousselet” is uncommon French (frequency #65,481 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,481
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de poire d’été qui a la peau rougeâtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rousselet · rousselet · French
rousselet · rank #65,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,481
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rous
Nearest frequency peer: rous (-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 « rousselet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rota
rota
34,523 corpus weight
- roulottes
roulottes
34,522 corpus weight
- rous
rous
34,521 corpus weight
- rousselet
rousselet
34,520 corpus weight
- rusés
rusés
34,519 corpus weight
- réapprovisi…
réapprovisionnement
34,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rousselet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rousselet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁus.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rousselet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rousselet is uncommon French at frequency #65,481 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁus.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de poire d’été qui a la peau rougeâtre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rousselet in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rousselet, spelled R-O-U-S-S-E-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de poire d’été qui a la peau rougeâtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rousselet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des poires de rousselet.
Une compote de rousselet.
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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