rubrique
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.bʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Terre rouge dont les chirurgiens se servaient autrefois pour étancher le sang et pour faire des emplâtres siccatifs.
- 2Craie rouge dont les charpentiers frottent la corde avec laquelle ils marquent ce qu’il faut ôter des pièces de bois qu’ils veulent équarrir.
- 3Titre, indication en lettres rouges, fait par un copiste, dans les manuscrits anciens et aujourd’hui encore dans les missels, les bréviaires, etc.
- 4Titre, dans les livres de droit civil, de droit canon, parce qu’autrefois on les écrivait en rouge.
- 5Règles qui président à l’office.
- 6Indication du lieu où un livre a été publié.
- 7Genre, catégorie d’articles.
- 8Méthodes, règles des pratiques anciennes.
- 9Élément 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
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Misspelling Variants of "rubrique"
Frequency rank: #9,235 in French
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