ruée
French, noun/ʁɥe/
ruée is spelled R-U-É-E (4 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,887th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruée is a French feminine noun meaning “rush, dash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de se ruer, se précipiter. Il se dit surtout en parlant de grandes masses”.
What does ruée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerush, dash
- 2
femininemob, huge crowd
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de se ruer, se précipiter. Il se dit surtout en parlant de grandes masses. 2. Grande foule de visiteurs, d’acheteurs, de curieux, qui se rue.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ruée
- ruées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ruée?
- /ʁɥe/
- \ʁɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ruée in French?
ruée appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).