runaway
The verdict
“runaway” is uncommon French (frequency #83,340 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,340
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fugueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-runaway · runaway · French
runaway · rank #83,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,340
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rouquette
Nearest frequency peer: Rouquette (-2 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 « runaway »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rossignols
rossignols
16,665 corpus weight
- Rouhani
Rouhani
16,664 corpus weight
- Rouquette
Rouquette
16,663 corpus weight
- runaway
runaway
16,661 corpus weight
- régénérateur
régénérateur
16,657 corpus weight
- réinstaurer
réinstaurer
16,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « runaway » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | runaway |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « runaway » en français
Rare enough to double-check
runaway is uncommon French at frequency #83,340 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
runaway doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 runaway, spelled R-U-N-A-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Fugueur.
- 2Hors de contrôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how runaway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
runaway child, runaway slave
runaway shopping cart, runaway train, runaway horse, runaway climate change
Synonyms
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).