rubrique

/\ʁy.bʁik\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,235

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

rubrique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terre rouge dont les chirurgiens se servaient autrefois pour étancher le sang et pour faire des emplâtres siccatifs. Pronounced \ʁy.bʁik\. It ranks #9,235 in French word frequency. Often confused with rustique and rubriques.

Key facts for rubrique
PropertyValue
Headwordrubrique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁy.bʁik\
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,235
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rubrique in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rubrique is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁy.bʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,235 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for rubrique, with forms such as "rburique", "rrubrique", and "rubbrique". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "rustique", "rubriques", 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 rubrique, spelled R-U-B-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Terre rouge dont les chirurgiens se servaient autrefois pour étancher le sang et pour faire des emplâtres siccatifs.
  2. 2
    Craie rouge dont les charpentiers frottent la corde avec laquelle ils marquent ce qu’il faut ôter des pièces de bois qu’ils veulent équarrir.
  3. 3
    Titre, indication en lettres rouges, fait par un copiste, dans les manuscrits anciens et aujourd’hui encore dans les missels, les bréviaires, etc.
  4. 4
    Titre, dans les livres de droit civil, de droit canon, parce qu’autrefois on les écrivait en rouge.
  5. 5
    Règles qui président à l’office.
  6. 6
    Indication du lieu où un livre a été publié.
  7. 7
    Genre, catégorie d’articles.
  8. 8
    Méthodes, règles des pratiques anciennes.
  9. 9
    Élément d’une structure de données conçu pour porter une valeur.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rburique,rrubrique,rubbrique,rubirque,rubriqeu,rubriqque,rubriuqe,rubrqiue,rubrrique,rurbique,urbrique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rubrique

Misspelling Variants of "rubrique"

rburique8rrubrique9rubbrique9rubirque8rubriqeu8rubriqque9rubriuqe8rubrqiue8
Misspelling Variants of "rubrique"

Frequency rank: #9,235 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rubrique"?
"rubrique" is spelled R-U-B-R-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁy.bʁik\.
What does "rubrique" mean?
As a noun, "rubrique" means: Terre rouge dont les chirurgiens se servaient autrefois pour étancher le sang et pour faire des emplâtres siccatifs.
What words are commonly confused with "rubrique"?
"rubrique" is commonly confused with "rustique", "rubriques". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rubrique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rubrique" is \ʁy.bʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rubrique" come from?
"rubrique" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.