route
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#562
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
route is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voie praticable par les voitures en dehors des agglomérations. Pronounced \ʁut\. It ranks #562 in French word frequency. Often confused with rue and rte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | route |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁut\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for route is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁut\. Corpus data places it at rank #562 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for route, with forms such as "orute", "rotue", and "routte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "rte", "roux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 route, spelled R-O-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voie praticable par les voitures en dehors des agglomérations.
- 2Ensemble de ces voies.
- 3Le transport sur route.
- 4Grande allée percée dans un bois, dans une forêt, pour la commodité du charroi, de la chasse, de la promenade, etc.
- 5Direction qu’on suit ou qu’on peut suivre, par terre, par mer (cap) ou par les airs, pour aller en quelque lieu.
- 6Déplacement en vue d'une destination. → voir en route et faire route
- 7(Au singulier, précédé de l'article défini la) Action de voyager sur les routes, indépendamment de la destination.
- 8Parcours des astres, des eaux, etc., se dirigeant d’un point vers un autre.
- 9Conduite qu’on tient pour arriver à quelque fin, les moyens qui y mènent.
- 10Plante médicinale ; rue fétide.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orute,rotue,routte,rroute,ruote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for route
Misspelling Variants of "route"
Frequency rank: #562 in French
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