être roi
\ɛtʁ ʁwa\
The verdict
“être roi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dominer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etre-roi · être roi · French
être roi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ê" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être roi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛtʁ ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « être roi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
être roi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛtʁ ʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dominer.".
être roi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is être roi, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Dominer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how être roi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cabotinage est roi, tellement roi que personne ne peut s'en passer. Les hommes les plus supérieurs sont obligés de devenir cabotins eux-mêmes pour faire triompher leurs meilleures idées.
Jeux de société : trois univers où le stratège est roi
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.