rue
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#438
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voie de circulation d'une ville, d'un bourg, d'un village, etc., généralement bordée de maisons ou de propriétés closes. Pronounced \ʁy\. It ranks #438 in French word frequency. Often confused with RV and Ry.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rue is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁy\. Corpus data places it at rank #438 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rue in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "Ry", "run", 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 rue, spelled R-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voie de circulation d'une ville, d'un bourg, d'un village, etc., généralement bordée de maisons ou de propriétés closes.
- 2L’ensemble des habitants, des commerces et des piétons d’une rue.
- 3(Au singulier, précédé de l'article défini « la ») La rue vue comme lieu de manifestation populaire.
- 4(Au singulier, précédé de l'article défini « la ») Masse populaire manifestant son opinion. → voir descendre dans la rue et rue arabe
- 5Tranchée vide après son exploitation dans une carrière ou une mine.
- 6Espace ou passage long et étroit.
- 7Espace vide vertical produit par l’alignement fortuit de blancs dans une page imprimée.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #438 in French
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