robot

\ʁɔ.bo\

/\ʁɔ.bo\/ noun

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The verdict

“robot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,615
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine de forme humaine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-robot · robot · French

robot · rank #4,615 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,615
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH romans

Nearest frequency peer: romans (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « robot »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « robot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

robot vs rot
60% similar
robot vs room
60% similar
robot vs root
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for robot
PropertyValue
Headwordrobot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ.bo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,615
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « robot »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).robotse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « romans » (#4,616), « retenu » (#4,613), « Raymond » (#4,612). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « robot » est au #4,615. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around robot (IPA \ʁɔ.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,615 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for robot, with forms such as "orbot", "rboot", and "robbot". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rot", "room", "root", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is robot, spelled R-O-B-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Machine de forme humaine.
  2. 2
    Machine accomplissant des tâches dangereuses ou pénibles pour un humain.
  3. 3
    Objet programmé pour exécuter des actes basés sur l’intelligence artificielle.
  4. 4
    Appareil ménager électrique (mixeur, presse purée, râpe à carottes, etc.), même s'il n'a aucun rapport avec l'intelligence artificielle.
  5. 5
    Logiciel qui effectue des tâches automatiques → voir bot.
  6. 6
    Personne qui agit de façon automatique ou programmée.
  7. 7
    Abréviation de robot conversationnel, logiciel qui invente des répliques par mimétisme d'un modèle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how robot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En 1973, Wabot-1 est le premier robot humanoïde doué de vision. Il a été réalisé à l'université de Waseda au Japon.
  2. Dans tous les cas, le robot ne présente un intérêt que si la traite, en salle de traite, est confiée à un salarié tous les jours de la semaine. Le robot n'est pas une bonne alternative pour les éleveurs recherchant un allégement du travail le week-end.

Synonyms

androïdeautomatechatbot

This word in other languages

robot(English)robot(Español)Roboter(Deutsch)robot(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orbot
  • rboot
  • robbot
  • robott
  • robto
  • roobt
  • rrobot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of robot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

orbot2rboot2robbot1robott1robto2roobt2rrobot1
Edit distance from "robot"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "robot"?
"robot" is spelled R-O-B-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.bo\.
What does "robot" mean?
As a noun, "robot" means: Machine de forme humaine.
What words are commonly confused with "robot"?
"robot" is commonly confused with "rot", "room", "root". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "robot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "robot" is \ʁɔ.bo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "robot" come from?
"robot" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "robot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rôles#4,622poule#4,602ponts#4,600modes#4,588

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

tirage7 variantspommes7 variantsaimait7 variantsbarbe7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list