grand roque
The verdict
“grand roque” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Roque effectué avec la tour du coté dame (à droite pour les noirs, et à gauche pour les blancs).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand roque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɔk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grand roque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand roque is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɔk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Roque effectué avec la tour du coté dame (à droite pour les noirs, et à gauche pour les blancs).".
No misspelling variants are generated for grand roque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grand roque, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -R-O-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roque effectué avec la tour du coté dame (à droite pour les noirs, et à gauche pour les blancs).
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Using “grand roque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -R-O-Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁɔk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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