roisterous
"roisterous" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roisterous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loud and disorderly; carousing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roisterous · roisterous · English
roisterous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roisterous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “roisterous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
roisterous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Loud and disorderly; carousing.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for roisterous, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From roister + -ous. The correct English form is roisterous, spelled R-O-I-S-T-E-R-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Loud and disorderly; carousing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roisterous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The New Year’s Eve crowd was wild and roisterous.
One ſhip that Lycius did ſhrowd with faithful Orontes / In ſight of captayne was ſwaſht with a royſterus heapefloud [high tide].
Etymology
From roister + -ous.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.