roussi
\ʁu.si\
The verdict
“roussi” is uncommon French (frequency #64,751 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,751
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devenu roux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roussi · roussi · French
roussi · rank #64,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,751
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rougon
Nearest frequency peer: Rougon (-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 « roussi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rodolfo
Rodolfo
35,254 corpus weight
- rogatoire
rogatoire
35,253 corpus weight
- Roseline
Roseline
35,252 corpus weight
- Rougon
Rougon
35,251 corpus weight
- roussi
roussi
35,250 corpus weight
- rubéole
rubéole
35,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roussi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roussi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁu.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roussi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roussi is uncommon French at frequency #64,751 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁu.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
roussi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is roussi, spelled R-O-U-S-S-I.
Definition
- 1Devenu roux.
- 2Taché par des rousseurs dues à l'humidité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roussi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pays que nous traversions était d’une tristesse lugubre qu’augmentait encore le silence ; aussi loin que les regards pouvaient s’étendre dans ce jour sombre, on ne voyait que des champs dénudés, des collines arides et des bois roussis.
Sur la cheminée, dans laquelle se consume un maigre tison, un Sacre de Charles X aux marges roussies prouve que la logeuse est légitimiste.
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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