rousselle
\ʁu.sɛl\
The verdict
“rousselle” is uncommon French (frequency #69,396 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,396
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rousseler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rousselle · rousselle · French
rousselle · rank #69,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,396
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rubinstein
Nearest frequency peer: Rubinstein (+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 « rousselle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Roederer
Roederer
30,607 corpus weight
- rousselle
rousselle
30,605 corpus weight
- Rubinstein
Rubinstein
30,604 corpus weight
- ruineux
ruineux
30,603 corpus weight
- réagirais
réagirais
30,602 corpus weight
- récupérons
récupérons
30,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rousselle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rousselle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rousselle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rousselle is uncommon French at frequency #69,396 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁu.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rousselle, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rousselle, spelled R-O-U-S-S-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rousseler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rousseler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe rousseler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe rousseler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe rousseler.
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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