rucher
\ʁy.ʃe\
The verdict
“rucher” is uncommon French (frequency #62,602 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,602
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de ruches d’abeilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rucher · rucher · French
rucher · rank #62,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,602
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réaffirmant
Nearest frequency peer: réaffirmant (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rucher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roter
roter
37,402 corpus weight
- roure
roure
37,401 corpus weight
- rucher
rucher
37,399 corpus weight
- réaffirmant
réaffirmant
37,398 corpus weight
- réhabilitée
réhabilitée
37,397 corpus weight
- rétrospectif
rétrospectif
37,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rucher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rucher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rucher is uncommon French at frequency #62,602 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rucher, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rucher, spelled R-U-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de ruches d’abeilles.
- 2Endroit où sont situées des ruches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rucher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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…
Réclamation du lieutenant Viard, dont la compagnie est près d’un rucher, et qui a déjà deux hommes piqués. Mais interdiction formelle d’enfumer les abeilles avant le café.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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