ruser
\ʁy.ze\
The verdict
“ruser” is uncommon French (frequency #61,112 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,112
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se servir de ruses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruser · ruser · French
ruser · rank #61,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,112
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ruisselle
Nearest frequency peer: ruisselle (-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 « ruser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rozon
rozon
38,892 corpus weight
- RTA
RTA
38,891 corpus weight
- ruisselle
ruisselle
38,890 corpus weight
- ruser
ruser
38,889 corpus weight
- Rushdie
Rushdie
38,888 corpus weight
- râteaux
râteaux
38,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ruser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁy.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ruser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ruser is uncommon French at frequency #61,112 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁy.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ruser, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ruser, spelled R-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se servir de ruses.
- 2Se servir de toutes sortes de détours pour se dérober aux chiens qui poursuivent, en parlant du gibier, et particulièrement du cerf, du lièvre, du renard, etc.
- 3Traîner, frotter, glisser en faisant du bruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ruser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce chicaneur vous donne bien de la peine, il ruse, il ne fait que ruser.
C’est un vieux cerf, un vieux lièvre qui ruse.
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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