router
\ʁu.te\
The verdict
“router” is uncommon French (frequency #89,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,103
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Choisir une route, un chemin, faire route.
Corpus desk
Index FR-router · router · French
router · rank #89,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roussette
Nearest frequency peer: roussette (-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 « router »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rituellement
rituellement
10,904 corpus weight
- rodent
rodent
10,900 corpus weight
- roussette
roussette
10,899 corpus weight
- router
router
10,898 corpus weight
- Ruffalo
Ruffalo
10,896 corpus weight
- ruta
ruta
10,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « router » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | router |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « router » en français
Rare enough to double-check
router is uncommon French at frequency #89,103 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for router in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is router, spelled R-O-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Choisir une route, un chemin, faire route.
- 2Trier des lettres ou des colis pour en organiser le transport.
- 3Tracer la route.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how router appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Appelé dans le langage courant « central téléphonique », l’autocommutateur assure la connexion entre les lignes du réseau public et la distribution intérieure, ainsi qu'entre les postes intérieurs eux-mêmes. Il comporte un ou plusieurs calculateurs chargés de décrypter les adresses, de router les appels et de comptabiliser les communications.
Nonante lieues en quatre étapes et une demie. Tu calcules ? vingt lieues par jour ! Diâle, on routait dur en ce temps-là.
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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