rob
\ʁɔb\
The verdict
“rob” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,552) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,552
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suc épaissi et dépuré de plantes, de fruits cuits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rob · rob · French
rob · rank #9,552 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,552
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restaurer
Nearest frequency peer: restaurer (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rob »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- registres
registres
90,452 corpus weight
- restaurer
restaurer
90,450 corpus weight
- rob
rob
90,449 corpus weight
- rurales
rurales
90,448 corpus weight
- réussie
réussie
90,447 corpus weight
- sacrifices
sacrifices
90,446 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rob » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rob »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rob is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁɔb\. Frequency #9,552 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Suc épaissi et dépuré de plantes, de fruits cuits.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rob in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rob, spelled R-O-B.
Definition
- 1Suc épaissi et dépuré de plantes, de fruits cuits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On fait des robs de coings, de mûres, de baies de sureau, d’aloës, d’acacia, de réglisse, de berberis, &c. pour diverses maladies. Le suc de groseilles rouges confit, se nomme rob de Ribé. A l’égard du suc des raisins dépurés, il s’appelle particulièrement sapa, quand il est cuit jusqu’à la consomption des deux tiers.
La boisson, dans les premiers jours, sera […] soit une décoction de tamarins […] soit un oxydat léger avec un peu de rob de sureau.
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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