roan
\ˈroː.ãn\
The verdict
“roan” is uncommon French (frequency #96,331 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,331
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe reiñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roan · roan · French
roan · rank #96,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,331
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Riyadh
Nearest frequency peer: Riyadh (-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 « roan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Risle
Risle
3,673 corpus weight
- Riyadh
Riyadh
3,671 corpus weight
- roan
roan
3,670 corpus weight
- roide
roide
3,669 corpus weight
- Rouart
Rouart
3,668 corpus weight
- rouleurs
rouleurs
3,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈroː.ãn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roan is uncommon French at frequency #96,331 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈroː.ãn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe reiñ.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for roan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is roan, spelled R-O-A-N.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe reiñ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Mat », eme ar roue, « ar pardon a roan dʼeocʼh ».
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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