roa
\roa\
The verdict
“roa” is uncommon French (frequency #75,165 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,165
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand (pour un individu).
Corpus desk
Index FR-roa · roa · French
roa · rank #75,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,165
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rivoire
Nearest frequency peer: rivoire (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « roa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retraitées
retraitées
24,839 corpus weight
- reveal
reveal
24,838 corpus weight
- rivoire
rivoire
24,837 corpus weight
- roa
roa
24,836 corpus weight
- Roannais
Roannais
24,835 corpus weight
- robine
robine
24,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \roa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roa is uncommon French at frequency #75,165 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \roa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand (pour un individu).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for roa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is roa, spelled R-O-A.
Definition
- 1Grand (pour un individu).
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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