rôle
"role" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rôle” is uncommon English (frequency #96,439 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,439
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dated spelling of role.
Corpus desk
Index EN-role · rôle · English
rôle · rank #96,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,439
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 21,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Ryley
Nearest frequency peer: Ryley (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “rôle”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ryegrass
ryegrass
3,564 corpus weight
- Ryley
Ryley
3,563 corpus weight
- rôle
rôle
3,562 corpus weight
- saltillo
saltillo
3,556 corpus weight
- Sameera
Sameera
3,555 corpus weight
- Sandbach
Sandbach
3,554 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rôle” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rôle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rôle” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rôle is uncommon English at frequency #96,439 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dated spelling of role.".
rôle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is rôle, spelled R-Ô-L-E.
Definition
- 1Dated spelling of role.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rôle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We have referred to the Bull many times, both in his astronomical aspect as pioneer of the Spring-Sun, and in his more direct rôle as plougher of the fields[.]
Somehow, I was not quite as elated as I might have been. I remembered that Cynthia had begun her confidences in much the same way. Besides, a father confessor should be elderly, it is not at all the rôle for a young man.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.