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rose

/ɹoʊz/noun, verb, adjective

rose is spelled R-O-S-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 66 times per million words in written English, the 1,602nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rose means “A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rose is roses or rosés.

How many letters and syllables are in rose?

Letters4: R-O-S-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing66 times per million words; the 1,602nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is rose?

Rose appears 66 times per million words in written English, the 1,602nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce rose?

  • UK /ɹəʊz/
  • UK [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
  • US /ɹoʊz/

Rose has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-rose.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-rose.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-rose.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with rose

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

rose vs rosé0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with rose?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rose from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: sore, eros, orse.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of rose

  • roses plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • rosing participle, present
  • rosed participle, past
  • rosés plural
  • more ærose comparative
  • most ærose superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does rose mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.

  2. 2

    A flower of the rose plant.

  3. 3

    A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)

  4. 4

    Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.

  5. 5

    A bouquet of circles.

  6. 6

    The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.

  7. 7

    A nontraditional tincture in Canadian heraldry, corresponding to pink.

  8. 8

    A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.

  9. 9

    Alternative spelling of rosé.

verb

  1. 1

    To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.

  2. 2

    To perfume, as with roses.

  3. 3

    simple past of rise (a form of rise)

  4. 4

    colloquialnonstandardpast participle of rise (a form of rise)

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

noun

as Rose
  1. 1

    IrelandinformalA regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.

  2. 2

    IrelandinformalThe winner of that year's contest.

noun

as rosé
  1. 1

    Alternative form of rosé wine.

adjective

as ærose
  1. 1

    Dated spelling of aerose.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Rose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrosier (shrub), rose (flower), rosacée, rosacées (a plant or species in the rose family (Rosaceae)), pomme (nozzle), vin rosé (wine – see also rosé wine)
GermanRose (shrub), Roos (flower), Rosengewächs, Rosengewächse, rosenblütige Pflanze (a plant or species in the rose family (Rosaceae)), rosa (color)
Portugueserosa, roseira (shrub), cravina, craveiro (flower), rosé, vinho rosé (wine – see also rosé wine)
Spanishrosal (shrub), rosa (flower), roseta, alcachofa (nozzle), rosado (color)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does rose come from?

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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