rupestre
\ʁy.pɛstʁ\
The verdict
“rupestre” is uncommon French (frequency #76,098 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,098
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux rochers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rupestre · rupestre · French
rupestre · rank #76,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,098
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ruinant
Nearest frequency peer: ruinant (-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 « rupestre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ronflant
ronflant
23,908 corpus weight
- rossetti
rossetti
23,907 corpus weight
- ruinant
ruinant
23,904 corpus weight
- rupestre
rupestre
23,903 corpus weight
- réfugièrent
réfugièrent
23,901 corpus weight
- régalés
régalés
23,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rupestre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rupestre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁy.pɛstʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rupestre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rupestre is uncommon French at frequency #76,098 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁy.pɛstʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport aux rochers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rupestre, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rupestre, spelled R-U-P-E-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux rochers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rupestre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant celle-ci, la peinture rupestre la plus ancienne connue avait été découverte par la même équipe, également sur l'île de Sulawesi.
Les peintures rupestres étaient-elles des manifestations de la conscience nouvelle ou était-ce l’inconscient qui éclatait avec adresse, subtilité et finesse?
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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