roc
\ʁɔk\
The verdict
“roc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,935) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masse de pierre très dure, qui tient au sol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roc · roc · French
roc · rank #10,935 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,935
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH right
Nearest frequency peer: right (-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 « roc »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ressemblance
ressemblance
89,068 corpus weight
- right
right
89,067 corpus weight
- roc
roc
89,066 corpus weight
- Roussillon
Roussillon
89,065 corpus weight
- RT
RT
89,064 corpus weight
- ruiner
ruiner
89,063 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « roc » 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 | roc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « roc »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for roc is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁɔk\. Frequency #10,935 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Masse de pierre très dure, qui tient au sol.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for roc, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 roc, spelled R-O-C.
Definition
- 1Masse de pierre très dure, qui tient au sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Où, ô Hugo, cherchera-t-on ton nom ? Justice enfin faite que ne t'a-t-on ? Quand donc au corps qu’Académie on nomme Grimperas-tu, de roc en roc, rare homme ?
Je le quittai, honteuse de cette démarche dont j’avais connu d’avance la vanité car je savais mon incrédulité plus ferme que le roc.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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