rugosité
\ʁy.ɡɔ.zi.te\
The verdict
“rugosité” is uncommon French (frequency #58,233 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,233
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une surface raboteuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rugosite · rugosité · French
rugosité · rank #58,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,233
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rugbymen
Nearest frequency peer: rugbymen (-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 « rugosité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- romancée
romancée
41,771 corpus weight
- romands
romands
41,770 corpus weight
- rugbymen
rugbymen
41,769 corpus weight
- rugosité
rugosité
41,768 corpus weight
- rusée
rusée
41,767 corpus weight
- rythmées
rythmées
41,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rugosité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rugosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.ɡɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rugosité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rugosité is uncommon French at frequency #58,233 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy.ɡɔ.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rugosité in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rugosité, spelled R-U-G-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État d’une surface raboteuse.
- 2Petite aspérité que présente cette surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rugosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le front pointu, mal caché par des cheveux plats, rares, et qui tombaient comme des filaments de verre soufflé, couronnait par des rugosités rougeâtres une face grimaude.
Autour du foyer, sur trois faces seulement, pour laisser au cuisinier la libre approche de la marmite, des bancs de bois s’équilibraient sur les rugosités du plancher calleux comme la peau d’une monstrueuse orange, à l’aide de tessons de pots ou de fragments de brique.
Antonyms
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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