ruer
French, verb/ʁɥe/
ruer is spelled R-U-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruer is a French verb meaning “to kick with its hind legs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeter ou lancer vivement”.
What does ruer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kick with its hind legs
- 2
datedto hurl
- 3
datedto struggle, fight
- 4
to mob, jump on
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter ou lancer vivement. 2. Agiter ou projeter vivement ses membres ; se débattre. 3. Lancer vivement en arrière ses jambes postérieures, en parlant d’un équidé. 4. Se jeter impétueusement sur quelqu’un, sur quelque chose.
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 ruer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ruant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rué participle past
- rue first-person indicative present
- rues indicative present second-person
- ruons first-person indicative plural
- ruez indicative plural present
- ruent indicative plural present
- ruais first-person imperfect indicative
- ruait imperfect indicative singular
- ruions first-person imperfect indicative
- ruiez imperfect indicative plural
- ruaient imperfect indicative plural
- ruai first-person historic indicative
- ruas historic indicative past
- rua historic indicative past
- ruâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ruer?
- /ʁɥe/
- \ʁɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ruer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ruer in French?
ruer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).