roussette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#89,102
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
roussette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Type de requin petit ou moyen, à cinq paires de petites fentes branchiales, au corps taché, pêché pour sa chair et sa peau. Pronounced \ʁu.sɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roussette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roussette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.sɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #89,102 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for roussette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roussette, spelled R-O-U-S-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Type de requin petit ou moyen, à cinq paires de petites fentes branchiales, au corps taché, pêché pour sa chair et sa peau.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de nombreuses espèces de chiroptères qu’on nomme aussi renards volants.
- 3Petit oiseau à plumage presque entièrement roux, qui habite les forêts et qu’on nomme aussi fauvette des bois.
- 4(Ardennes wallones) Grive mauvis (Turdus iliacus).
- 5Nom vernaculaire du râle des genêts (Crex crex).
- 6Roussette de Savoie, vin blanc d’appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC) dont l’aire de production s’étend essentiellement sur le département de l’Ain et en Savoie.
- 7Sorte de beignet, frit dans l’huile.
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Frequency rank: #89,102 in French
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