ruz
\ʁy\
The verdict
“ruz” is uncommon French (frequency #85,239 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,239
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans le relief jurassien, vallée creusée dans un anticlinal et perpendiculaire à celui-ci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruz · ruz · French
ruz · rank #85,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,239
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RVB
Nearest frequency peer: RVB (+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 « ruz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rosebud
rosebud
14,765 corpus weight
- roupiller
roupiller
14,764 corpus weight
- ruz
ruz
14,762 corpus weight
- RVB
RVB
14,761 corpus weight
- récapitulat…
récapitulation
14,760 corpus weight
- réchappe
réchappe
14,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ruz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ruz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ruz is uncommon French at frequency #85,239 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans le relief jurassien, vallée creusée dans un anticlinal et perpendiculaire à celui-ci.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ruz, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ruz, spelled R-U-Z.
Definition
- 1Dans le relief jurassien, vallée creusée dans un anticlinal et perpendiculaire à celui-ci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ruz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le territoire de Métabief et de Jougne, un magnifique tableau des effets prodigieux de l’action erratique se présente aux yeux de l’observateur. Ici, nouvelle et grande cluse principale de communication du bassin helvétique au bassin jurassique, déterminée par un ruz de soulèvement du mont d’Or, assez analogue à celui de la Dôle, et par l’action conce…
Les clairières des forêts calcaires ont la flore des essarts; celles des forêts marneuses ont la flore des ruz marneux. A cette dernière viennent s'ajouter les sceaux de Salomon et les prêles des forêts, le chèvrefeuille à fruits bleus.
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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