rubéole
\ʁy.be.ɔl\
The verdict
“rubéole” is uncommon French (frequency #64,753 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,753
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie éruptive très légère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rubeole · rubéole · French
rubéole · rank #64,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,753
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roussi
Nearest frequency peer: roussi (-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 « rubéole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Roseline
Roseline
35,252 corpus weight
- Rougon
Rougon
35,251 corpus weight
- roussi
roussi
35,250 corpus weight
- rubéole
rubéole
35,248 corpus weight
- réapprovisi…
réapprovisionner
35,246 corpus weight
- réduisons
réduisons
35,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rubéole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubéole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.be.ɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rubéole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rubéole is uncommon French at frequency #64,753 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy.be.ɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maladie éruptive très légère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rubéole, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rubéole, spelled R-U-B-É-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie éruptive très légère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rubéole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rubéole contractée par une femme enceinte au cours des premiers mois de la grossesse peut entraîner de graves malformations chez le fœtus.
L’idée de combiner les vaccins n’est pas nouvelle. Par exemple, depuis les années 1970, on combine les vaccins contre la rougeole, la rubéole et les oreillons (vaccin RRO) pour immuniser les jeunes enfants.
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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