Roussy
\ʁu.si\
The verdict
“Roussy” is uncommon French (frequency #55,571 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,571
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roussy · Roussy · French
Roussy · rank #55,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,571
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rongent
Nearest frequency peer: rongent (-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 « Roussy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ritournelle
ritournelle
44,433 corpus weight
- Rivarol
Rivarol
44,432 corpus weight
- rongent
rongent
44,431 corpus weight
- Roussy
Roussy
44,430 corpus weight
- routard
routard
44,429 corpus weight
- Rubicon
Rubicon
44,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Roussy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roussy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Roussy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Roussy is uncommon French at frequency #55,571 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁu.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Roussy in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Roussy, spelled R-O-U-S-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Roussy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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