roar
\ˈɹɔɹ\
The verdict
“roar” is uncommon French (frequency #54,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,855
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rugissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roar · roar · French
roar · rank #54,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,855
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rocailleux
Nearest frequency peer: rocailleux (+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 « roar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ricaner
ricaner
45,149 corpus weight
- rinçage
rinçage
45,148 corpus weight
- roar
roar
45,146 corpus weight
- rocailleux
rocailleux
45,145 corpus weight
- Rochelais
Rochelais
45,144 corpus weight
- rococo
rococo
45,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹɔɹ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roar is uncommon French at frequency #54,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹɔɹ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rugissement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for roar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is roar, spelled R-O-A-R.
Definition
- 1Rugissement.
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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