ruminer
\ʁy.mi.ne\
The verdict
“ruminer” is uncommon French (frequency #54,233 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,233
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mâcher de nouveau les aliments qui ont déjà été avalés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruminer · ruminer · French
ruminer · rank #54,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,233
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rugissement
Nearest frequency peer: rugissement (-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 « ruminer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rudd
Rudd
45,771 corpus weight
- ruent
ruent
45,770 corpus weight
- rugissement
rugissement
45,769 corpus weight
- ruminer
ruminer
45,768 corpus weight
- réceptivité
réceptivité
45,767 corpus weight
- réclamons
réclamons
45,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ruminer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruminer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁy.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ruminer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ruminer is uncommon French at frequency #54,233 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁy.mi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ruminer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ruminer, spelled R-U-M-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mâcher de nouveau les aliments qui ont déjà été avalés.
- 2Tourner et retourner une chose dans son esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ruminer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bovins ruminent ce qu’ils ont mangé.
Lorsqu’un animal rumine, une partie des aliments brassés avec les liquides dans le rumen est régurgitée dans l’œsophage et expulsée dans la bouche où elle se mélange à la salive. L’animal la mastique longuement et l’avale de nouveau.
Synonyms
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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