rupture
\ʁyp.tyʁ\
The verdict
“rupture” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,036
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle une chose est rompue ; état d’une chose rompue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rupture · rupture · French
rupture · rank #3,036 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,036
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remplir
Nearest frequency peer: remplir (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “rupture”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- puissent
puissent
96,968 corpus weight
- pur
pur
96,967 corpus weight
- remplir
remplir
96,966 corpus weight
- rupture
rupture
96,965 corpus weight
- secrets
secrets
96,964 corpus weight
- Ski
Ski
96,963 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rupture” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | rupture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁyp.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “rupture” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around rupture (IPA \ʁyp.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,036 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rupture, with forms such as "rputure", "rrupture", and "ruppture". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "rustre", "ruptures", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rupture, spelled R-U-P-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle une chose est rompue ; état d’une chose rompue.
- 2Déchirement survenant dans un organe ou dans une membrane.
- 3Division qui se produit entre des personnes qui étaient unies par traité, par amitié, etc.
- 4Séparation de deux personnes qui étaient liées par une liaison amoureuse.
- 5Annulation des traités et des actes publics ou particuliers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rupture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette banquise, qui couvrait plusieurs milliers de lieues carrées, stationna pendant quatre cents ans à la même place, suivant la tradition, et se rompit tout à coup en 1817; ce fut cette rupture qui détermina la fameuse expédition du capitaine Ross pour la découverte du passage du Nord-Ouest.
Sa résistance à la rupture est égale à celle de la laine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rputure
- rrupture
- ruppture
- ruptrue
- ruptture
- ruptuer
- rupturre
- ruputre
- rutpure
- urpture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rupture - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "rupture", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "rupture". Here's where to go from here.
- "rupture" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "rustre". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,036 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.