rugissant
\ʁy.ʒi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“rugissant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,892 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rugit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rugissant · rugissant · French
rugissant · rank #77,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,892
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rushes
Nearest frequency peer: rushes (+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 « rugissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rouer
rouer
22,113 corpus weight
- rouleur
rouleur
22,112 corpus weight
- rouvrira
rouvrira
22,111 corpus weight
- rugissant
rugissant
22,109 corpus weight
- rushes
rushes
22,108 corpus weight
- récessif
récessif
22,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rugissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rugissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁy.ʒi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rugissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rugissant is uncommon French at frequency #77,892 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁy.ʒi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rugissant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rugissant, spelled R-U-G-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui rugit.
- 2Qui fait un bruit semblable au rugissement.
- 3Donc les accents paraissent semblables à des rugissements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rugissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un lion rugissant.
De ces lettres, les unes étaient tendres et vaporeuses comme le Lamartine d’Elvire, les autres enflammées et rugissantes comme le Mirabeau de Sophie.
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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