rubber
The verdict
“rubber” is uncommon French (frequency #56,236 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,236
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caoutchouc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rubber · rubber · French
rubber · rank #56,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,236
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roulées
Nearest frequency peer: roulées (-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 « rubber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rocaille
rocaille
43,770 corpus weight
- rouiller
rouiller
43,768 corpus weight
- roulées
roulées
43,767 corpus weight
- rubber
rubber
43,765 corpus weight
- récupérera
récupérera
43,761 corpus weight
- régnaient
régnaient
43,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rubber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rubber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rubber is uncommon French at frequency #56,236 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for rubber in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rubber, spelled R-U-B-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Caoutchouc.
- 2Pneu.
- 3Au whist, anglicisme désignant un robre ou rob.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rubber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En voyant qu’il ne s’agissait que de l’honneur de Modeste, Gobenheim prit son chapeau, salua, sortit, en emportant dix sous, et regardant tout nouveau rubber comme impossible.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).