Roxane
"roxane" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Roxane” is uncommon English (frequency #68,600 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,600
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Old Persian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roxane · Roxane · English
Roxane · rank #68,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,600
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosser
Nearest frequency peer: Rosser (-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 “Roxane”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Riverhead
Riverhead
31,408 corpus weight
- Roseland
Roseland
31,405 corpus weight
- rosier
rosier
31,403 corpus weight
- Rosser
Rosser
31,402 corpus weight
- Roxane
Roxane
31,401 corpus weight
- ruminating
ruminating
31,397 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Roxane” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roxane |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Roxane” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Roxane is uncommon English at frequency #68,600 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Old Persian.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Roxane, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Luna. The correct English form is Roxane, spelled R-O-X-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Old Persian.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Roxane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Your name is like a golden bell Hung in my heart; and when I think of you, I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - "Roxane!" "Roxane!"...along my veins, "Roxane!"
Etymology
From French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Luna.
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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