rustre

\ʁystʁ\

/\ʁystʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“rustre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,583. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,583
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est très rustique, très grossier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rustre · rustre · French

rustre · rank #47,583 · 9 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,583
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH RPC

Nearest frequency peer: RPC (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rustre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rustre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rustre vs rusé
50% similar
rustre vs rust
67% similar
rustre vs reste
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rustre
PropertyValue
Headwordrustre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁystʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#47,583
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rustre »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rustrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « RPC » (#47,582), « réfugiées » (#47,584), « rougeurs » (#47,581). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rustre » est au #47,583. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around rustre (IPA \ʁystʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,583 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est très rustique, très grossier.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rustre, with forms such as "rrustre", "rsutre", and "rusrte". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "rusé", "rust", "reste", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rustre, spelled R-U-S-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est très rustique, très grossier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rustre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il a l’air rustre, la mine rustre.
  2. Mais Félicité avait de meilleurs yeux. Elle regardait au loin dans l’avenir, et elle se sentait le besoin d’un homme bien portant, un peu rustre même, derrière lequel elle pût se cacher, et dont elle fît aller à son gré les bras et les jambes.

This word in other languages

uncouth(English)cerril(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rrustre
  • rsutre
  • rusrte
  • russtre
  • ruster
  • rustrre
  • rusttre
  • rutsre
  • urstre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rustre - 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.

rrustre1rsutre2rusrte2russtre1ruster2rustrre1rusttre1rutsre2
Edit distance from "rustre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rustre"?
"rustre" is spelled R-U-S-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁystʁ\.
What does "rustre" mean?
As an adjective, "rustre" means: Qui est très rustique, très grossier.
What words are commonly confused with "rustre"?
"rustre" is commonly confused with "rusé", "rust", "reste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rustre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rustre" is \ʁystʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rustre" come from?
"rustre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rustre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Rotrou#47,580satyre#47,597scotia#47,601sherpa#47,608

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Roscoff9 variantsrappeuse9 variantssuceuse9 variantspruneau9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list