ruche

\ʁyʃ\

/\ʁyʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“ruche” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,998
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de contenant où logent les abeilles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ruche · ruche · French

ruche · rank #15,998 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,998
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rivage

Nearest frequency peer: rivage (-1 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ruche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « ruche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ruche vs rue
60% similar
ruche vs rude
60% similar
ruche vs rush
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ruche
PropertyValue
Headwordruche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁyʃ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,998
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ruche »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ruchese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rivage » (#15,997), « ressemblant » (#15,996), « réduisent » (#16,000). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « ruche » est au #15,998. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around ruche (IPA \ʁyʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,998 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ruche, with forms such as "rcuhe", "rruche", and "rucche". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "rude", "rush", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ruche, spelled R-U-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de contenant où logent les abeilles.
  2. 2
    Ce contenant, avec les abeilles qui sont dedans.
  3. 3
    Bande plissée d’étoffe, de tulle ou de dentelle qui sert d’ornement à différents ajustements dans la toilette des femmes.
  4. 4
    Foule de personnes.
  5. 5
    Grande agglomération, centre habité par une population nombreuse et active.
  6. 6
    Coiffure ruche, coiffure de femme qui ressemble à une ruche (cheveux longs et allongés).
  7. 7
    Paraphe compliqué généralement formé d’entrelacs et démontrant l’habilité du signataire à maîtriser l’écriture à la plume.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ruche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De cette façon, ils ne perdirent pas de vue les abeilles chargées et après une heure d’une poursuite des plus difficiles, ils les virent arriver à leur ruche pratiquée dans le creux d’un ébénier mort.
  2. Tout contre le mur, à l’endroit où le toit de la maison touchait presque la terre, un rucher s’adossait, vermoulu, à demi effondré. Des pousses de coudrier l’étayaient, qui se couvraient en cette saison de chatons jaunâtres, pareils à des chenilles. Des ruches pourrissaient sur les rayons de bois : une pourtant, toute neuve, était pleine d’une rumeur bour…

Synonyms

panier à mouches

This word in other languages

hive(English)colmena(Español)Bienenstock(Deutsch)colméia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rcuhe
  • rruche
  • rucche
  • ruceh
  • ruchhe
  • ruhce
  • urche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ruche - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rcuhe2rruche1rucche1ruceh2ruchhe1ruhce2urche2
Edit distance from "ruche"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ruche"?
"ruche" is spelled R-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁyʃ\.
What does "ruche" mean?
As a noun, "ruche" means: Sorte de contenant où logent les abeilles.
What words are commonly confused with "ruche"?
"ruche" is commonly confused with "rue", "rude", "rush". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ruche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ruche" is \ʁyʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ruche" come from?
"ruche" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ruche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list