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roton

noun

roton is spelled R-O-T-O-N: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, roton means “The quantum of rotation in a superfluid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of roton is rotons.

How many letters and syllables are in roton?

Letters5: R-O-T-O-N
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is roton?

Roton appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).

Forms of roton

  • rotons plural

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

What does roton mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The quantum of rotation in a superfluid

  2. 2

    an elementary excitation or quasiparticle in a superfluid

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

Roton in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quantum of rotation:

LanguageWords
Frenchroton

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 roton come from?

From rotation + -on.

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

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