Rouyer
The verdict
“Rouyer” is uncommon French (frequency #87,115 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,115
- 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-rouyer · Rouyer · French
Rouyer · rank #87,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,115
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roussâtre
Nearest frequency peer: roussâtre (-2 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 « Rouyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roquelaure
roquelaure
12,890 corpus weight
- rougissant
rougissant
12,889 corpus weight
- roussâtre
roussâtre
12,888 corpus weight
- Rouyer
Rouyer
12,886 corpus weight
- rustica
rustica
12,884 corpus weight
- râlant
râlant
12,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rouyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rouyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rouyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rouyer is uncommon French at frequency #87,115 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rouyer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Rouyer, spelled R-O-U-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rouyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon Véronique Rouyer, il existerait, avant la phase de constance de genre, une phase de pseudo-constance traditionnelle.
Projection suivie d’un échange avec le public en présence du réalisateur Frédéric Sojcher, animé par Philippe Rouyer, critique de cinéma, qui qualifie de film de « comédie romantique, d’auteur, drôle et pétillante ».
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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