Roussillon
\ʁu.si.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“Roussillon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,936
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province de France, incluse dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roussillon · Roussillon · French
Roussillon · rank #10,936 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,936
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roc
Nearest frequency peer: roc (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Roussillon”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ressemblance
ressemblance
89,068 corpus weight
- right
right
89,067 corpus weight
- roc
roc
89,066 corpus weight
- Roussillon
Roussillon
89,065 corpus weight
- RT
RT
89,064 corpus weight
- ruiner
ruiner
89,063 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Roussillon” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roussillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.si.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Roussillon” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Roussillon (IPA \ʁu.si.jɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,936 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Roussillon, with forms such as "orussillon", "rosusillon", and "rousillon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Roussillon, spelled R-O-U-S-S-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Province de France, incluse dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Isère.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de l’Isère.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département du Vaucluse.
- 5Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative de la Montérégie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Roussillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gazonal, en homme excessivement pénétrant, crut que le peintre et Bixiou voulaient, pour lui apprendre à connaître Paris, lui faire payer mille francs le déjeuner du Café de Paris, car le fils du Roussillon n’avait pas encore quitté cette prodigieuse défiance qui bastionne à Paris l’homme de province.
L’Édit de Roussillon est un édit pris à Roussillon en 1564, qui fait débuter l’année en France le premier janvier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orussillon
- rosusillon
- rousillon
- rousisllon
- roussillno
- roussillonn
- roussiloln
- roussilon
- rousslilon
- rroussillon
- ruossillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Roussillon - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Roussillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,936 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.