rubis
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,143
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rubis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pierre précieuse très dure, transparente et d’un rouge plus ou moins vif. Sa formule chimique est Al₂O₃:Cr. Pronounced \ʁy.bi\. Often confused with rus and rues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.bi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rubis is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁy.bi\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,143 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rubis, with forms such as "rbuis", "rrubis", and "rubbis". 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, "rus", "rues", "ruby", 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 rubis, spelled R-U-B-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pierre précieuse très dure, transparente et d’un rouge plus ou moins vif. Sa formule chimique est Al₂O₃:Cr.
- 2Meuble représentant la gemme du même nom dans les armoiries. Sa représentation est généralement basée sur celle du diamant mais posé en carreau et non en losange. Sa couleur est naturellement de gueules. Il est toutefois nécessaire de le blasonner. Elle est parfois simplement représentée comme une pierre rouge utilisée dans un autre meuble comme ornement. À rapprocher de diamant, émeraude et quartz.
- 3Nom donné communément aux paliers des mécanismes de montres, car ils sont réalisés en cette matière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rbuis,rrubis,rubbis,rubiss,rubsi,ruibs,urbis
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Misspelling Variants of "rubis"
Frequency rank: #19,143 in French
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