Roannais
\ʁɔ.a.nɛ\
The verdict
“Roannais” is uncommon French (frequency #75,166 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,166
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Roanne, commune de la Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roannais · Roannais · French
Roannais · rank #75,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roa
Nearest frequency peer: roa (-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 « Roannais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- romanée
romanée
24,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Roannais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roannais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.a.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Roannais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Roannais is uncommon French at frequency #75,166 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.a.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Roannais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Roannais, spelled R-O-A-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Roanne, commune de la Loire.
- 2Habitant de Roannes-Saint-Mary, commune du Cantal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Roannais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais les meilleures organisations finissent par s’user. C’était le cas avec la bande à Drouillet, dit Riton le Roannais.
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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