Roquefort
"roquefort" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Roquefort” is uncommon English (frequency #84,697 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,697
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A blue cheese made from sheep unpasteurized milk, produced in the south of France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roquefort · Roquefort · English
Roquefort · rank #84,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,697
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rosella
Nearest frequency peer: rosella (+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 “Roquefort”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- riverrun
riverrun
15,312 corpus weight
- roguelike
roguelike
15,307 corpus weight
- Roquefort
Roquefort
15,304 corpus weight
- rosella
rosella
15,303 corpus weight
- rotorcraft
rotorcraft
15,302 corpus weight
- ruffed
ruffed
15,298 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Roquefort” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roquefort |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Roquefort” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Roquefort is uncommon English at frequency #84,697 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A blue cheese made from sheep unpasteurized milk, produced in the south of France.".
Roquefort doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the name of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, a village in southern France where it originated. The correct English form is Roquefort, spelled R-O-Q-U-E-F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1A blue cheese made from sheep unpasteurized milk, produced in the south of France.
Etymology
From the name of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, a village in southern France where it originated.
This word in other languages
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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