roads
\ˈɹoʊdz\
The verdict
“roads” is uncommon French (frequency #72,694 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,694
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de road.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roads · roads · French
roads · rank #72,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,694
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rivier
Nearest frequency peer: rivier (-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 « roads »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rital
rital
27,310 corpus weight
- ritals
ritals
27,309 corpus weight
- rivier
rivier
27,308 corpus weight
- roads
roads
27,307 corpus weight
- robusta
robusta
27,306 corpus weight
- Rolande
Rolande
27,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roads » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roads |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹoʊdz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roads » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roads is uncommon French at frequency #72,694 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹoʊdz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de road.".
No misspelling variants are generated for roads in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is roads, spelled R-O-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de road.
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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