rose
/ɹəʊz/
"rose" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rose” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,614
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rose · rose · English
rose · rank #1,614 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,614
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH returned
Nearest frequency peer: returned (-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 “rose”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pull
pull
98,390 corpus weight
- push
push
98,389 corpus weight
- returned
returned
98,388 corpus weight
- rose
rose
98,387 corpus weight
- seat
seat
98,386 corpus weight
- seemed
seemed
98,385 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rose” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹəʊz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rose” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rose (IPA /ɹəʊz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,614 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 14 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rose, with forms such as "orse", "roes", and "rosse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RS", "row", "Roy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον … The correct English form is rose, spelled R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- 2A flower of the rose plant.
- 3A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- 4Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- 5A bouquet of circles.
- 6The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- 7A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- 8A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- 9The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- 10Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- 11Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- 12A graph with only one vertex.
- 13A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
- 14A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy: Thou art thy ſelfe... What's in a name? That which we call a Roſe, By any other word would ſmell as ſweete...
1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:" O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in june...
Etymology
From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (ward), Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /gul/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orse
- roes
- rosse
- rrose
- rsoe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rose - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rose", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
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.