Ruf
The verdict
“Ruf” is uncommon French (frequency #54,865 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,865
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruf · Ruf · French
Ruf · rank #54,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,865
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roster
Nearest frequency peer: roster (-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 « Ruf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rooms
rooms
45,139 corpus weight
- rosbif
rosbif
45,138 corpus weight
- roster
roster
45,137 corpus weight
- Ruf
Ruf
45,136 corpus weight
- rusticité
rusticité
45,135 corpus weight
- râlent
râlent
45,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ruf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ruf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ruf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ruf is uncommon French at frequency #54,865 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ruf, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Ruf, spelled R-U-F.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ruf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux artistes ont proposé ce projet à Éric Ruf, l’administrateur de la Comédie-Française.
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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