rocher
"rocher" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rocher” is uncommon English (frequency #63,207 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,207
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A quenelle (in the sense of food moulded into an elliptical shape) made using one spoon rather than two.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rocher · rocher · English
rocher · rank #63,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,207
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH roadtrip
Nearest frequency peer: roadtrip (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “rocher”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rideau
rideau
36,799 corpus weight
- ringling
ringling
36,798 corpus weight
- roadtrip
roadtrip
36,795 corpus weight
- rocher
rocher
36,794 corpus weight
- Rochford
Rochford
36,793 corpus weight
- Rotorua
Rotorua
36,791 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rocher” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocher |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rocher” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rocher is uncommon English at frequency #63,207 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A quenelle (in the sense of food moulded into an elliptical shape) made using one spoon rather than two.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rocher in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: French The correct English form is rocher, spelled R-O-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1A quenelle (in the sense of food moulded into an elliptical shape) made using one spoon rather than two.
Etymology
French
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).