routard
\ʁu.taʁ\
The verdict
“routard” is uncommon French (frequency #55,572 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,572
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voyageur, généralement solitaire et préférant les formules bon marché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-routard · routard · French
routard · rank #55,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,572
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Roussy
Nearest frequency peer: Roussy (-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 « routard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Rufin
Rufin
44,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « routard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | routard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « routard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
routard is uncommon French at frequency #55,572 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voyageur, généralement solitaire et préférant les formules bon marché.".
No misspelling variants are generated for routard in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is routard, spelled R-O-U-T-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Voyageur, généralement solitaire et préférant les formules bon marché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how routard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans toute ma vie de routard, j’ai vu presque tous les plus beaux endroits du monde, mais rien n’a jamais égalé, dans mon esprit, ces rencontres folles, inattendues, toutes simples.
C'était le rendez-vous des babs, des routards, des beatniks en partance pour les Indes. Les minibus se garaient en face. On y mangeait pour pas cher,on s'y reposait avant le grand saut dans l'inconnu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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