ruiné
\ʁɥi.ne\
The verdict
“ruiné” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,469. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,469
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a perdu sa fortune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruine · ruiné · French
ruiné · rank #13,469 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,469
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rétabli
Nearest frequency peer: rétabli (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ruiné »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- revenons
revenons
86,535 corpus weight
- rhume
rhume
86,534 corpus weight
- ruiné
ruiné
86,532 corpus weight
- rétabli
rétabli
86,531 corpus weight
- Sacha
Sacha
86,530 corpus weight
- Samantha
Samantha
86,529 corpus weight
What this shows « ruiné » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruiné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɥi.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ruiné »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ruiné (IPA \ʁɥi.ne\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,469 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a perdu sa fortune.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ruiné, with forms such as "riuné", "rruiné", and "ruinné". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "Ruiz", "rusé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ruiné, spelled R-U-I-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a perdu sa fortune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ruiné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette famille est ruinée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- riuné
- rruiné
- ruinné
- ruién
- runié
- uriné
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ruiné - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ruiné", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).