ruche
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,998
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ruche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de contenant où logent les abeilles. Pronounced \ʁyʃ\. Often confused with rue and rude.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁyʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ruche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁyʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,998 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 ruche, with forms such as "rcuhe", "rruche", and "rucche". 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, "rue", "rude", "rush", 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 ruche, spelled R-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de contenant où logent les abeilles.
- 2Ce contenant, avec les abeilles qui sont dedans.
- 3Bande plissée d’étoffe, de tulle ou de dentelle qui sert d’ornement à différents ajustements dans la toilette des femmes.
- 4Foule de personnes.
- 5Grande agglomération, centre habité par une population nombreuse et active.
- 6Coiffure ruche, coiffure de femme qui ressemble à une ruche (cheveux longs et allongés).
- 7Paraphe compliqué généralement formé d’entrelacs et démontrant l’habilité du signataire à maîtriser l’écriture à la plume.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcuhe,rruche,rucche,ruceh,ruchhe,ruhce,urche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ruche
Misspelling Variants of "ruche"
Frequency rank: #15,998 in French
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