rusée
\ʁy.ze\
The verdict
“rusée” is uncommon French (frequency #58,234 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,234
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne faisant preuve de ruse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rusee · rusée · French
rusée · rank #58,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,234
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rugosité
Nearest frequency peer: rugosité (-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 « rusée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- romands
romands
41,770 corpus weight
- rugbymen
rugbymen
41,769 corpus weight
- rugosité
rugosité
41,768 corpus weight
- rusée
rusée
41,767 corpus weight
- rythmées
rythmées
41,766 corpus weight
- réagirait
réagirait
41,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rusée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rusée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rusée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rusée is uncommon French at frequency #58,234 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne faisant preuve de ruse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rusée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rusée, spelled R-U-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personne faisant preuve de ruse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rusée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicole rougissait et baissait les yeux ; la rusée s’attendait sans doute à des paroles comme M. de Richelieu savait si bien les dire.
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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