rotisserie
/ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
"rotisserie" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rotisserie” is uncommon English (frequency #53,218 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,218
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rotisserie · rotisserie · English
rotisserie · rank #53,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,218
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rime
Nearest frequency peer: rime (-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 “rotisserie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- revelry
revelry
46,786 corpus weight
- riba
riba
46,785 corpus weight
- rime
rime
46,784 corpus weight
- rotisserie
rotisserie
46,783 corpus weight
- Sakai
Sakai
46,781 corpus weight
- Samira
Samira
46,780 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rotisserie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotisserie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rotisserie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rotisserie is uncommon English at frequency #53,218 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
rotisserie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery. The correct English form is rotisserie, spelled R-O-T-I-S-S-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.
- 2A shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner.
- 3Ellipsis of rotisserie baseball, synonym of fantasy baseball.
- 4Ellipsis of rotisserie sports, synonym of fantasy sports.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rotisserie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There will be no more misery / When the world is our rotisserie
Rotisseries are essentially self-basting because most of the juices stay on the meat and distribute across it while the rotisserie is being turned.
Etymology
From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.
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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