# rose

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹəʊz/ · frequency rank #1,614

## Definitions
1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. A flower of the rose plant.
3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
5. A bouquet of circles.
6. The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
7. A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
8. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
9. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
10. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
11. Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
12. A graph with only one vertex.
13. A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
14. A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.

## 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).

## Easily confused with
- **RS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rs)
- **row** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-row)
- **Roy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-roy)
- **rot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rot)
- **rue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rue)
- **rye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rye)
- **RSS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rss)
- **RSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rsa)
- **Rus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rus)
- **RSI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rsi)
- **RSL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rsl)
- **rule** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rule)
- **rush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rush)
- **Ross** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-ross)
- **rude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rude)
- **rows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rows)
- **rust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rust)
- **Russ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-russ)
- **Roth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-roth)
- **Rowe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rose-vs-rowe)

## Common misspellings (5)
`orse`, `roes`, `rosse`, `rrose`, `rsoe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rose