ruisselle
\ʁɥi.sɛl\
The verdict
“ruisselle” is uncommon French (frequency #61,111 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,111
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ruisseler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruisselle · ruisselle · French
ruisselle · rank #61,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,111
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RTA
Nearest frequency peer: RTA (-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 « ruisselle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rouillés
rouillés
38,893 corpus weight
- rozon
rozon
38,892 corpus weight
- RTA
RTA
38,891 corpus weight
- ruisselle
ruisselle
38,890 corpus weight
- ruser
ruser
38,889 corpus weight
- Rushdie
Rushdie
38,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ruisselle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruisselle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɥi.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ruisselle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ruisselle is uncommon French at frequency #61,111 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɥi.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ruisselle in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ruisselle, spelled R-U-I-S-S-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ruisseler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ruisseler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ruisseler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ruisseler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de ruisseler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ruisselle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alyson ruisselle de pluie et de larmes.
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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