rugir
\ʁy.ʒiʁ\
The verdict
“rugir” is uncommon French (frequency #57,568 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,568
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pousser son cri, en parlant du lion, du tigre, de la panthère et de plusieurs autres animaux féroces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rugir · rugir · French
rugir · rank #57,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,568
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RTM
Nearest frequency peer: RTM (-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 « rugir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Romeu
Romeu
42,436 corpus weight
- Rousselot
Rousselot
42,435 corpus weight
- RTM
RTM
42,434 corpus weight
- rugir
rugir
42,433 corpus weight
- rye
rye
42,431 corpus weight
- récidiver
récidiver
42,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rugir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rugir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁy.ʒiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rugir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rugir is uncommon French at frequency #57,568 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁy.ʒiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rugir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rugir, spelled R-U-G-I-R.
Definition
- 1Pousser son cri, en parlant du lion, du tigre, de la panthère et de plusieurs autres animaux féroces.
- 2Hurler, crier.
- 3Émettre un son ressemblant à un rugissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rugir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En même temps, le ministre des jeux s'avança pour demander s'il fallait lâcher contre le bestiaire un lion ou un taureau furieux, qu'on entendait rugir dans leurs cages.
Rugir comme un lion, se dit d’un homme qui pousse des cris de fureur, de colère.
This word in other languages
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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