ruée
\ʁɥe\
The verdict
“ruée” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,117) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,117
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de se ruer, se précipiter. Il se dit surtout en parlant de grandes masses.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɥe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ruée” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ruée is neighbouring look-alikes ("run", "rus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁɥe\. Frequency #25,117 among 507,453 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ruée, with forms such as "rruée", "ruee", and "rueé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "rus", "rues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ruée, spelled R-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Action de se ruer, se précipiter. Il se dit surtout en parlant de grandes masses.
- 2Grande foule de visiteurs, d’acheteurs, de curieux, qui se rue.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rruée
- ruee
- rueé
- réue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ruée - 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.
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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Using “ruée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-U-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɥe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “run” - see the side-by-side comparison. ruée vs run
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.