rocade
\ʁo.kad\
The verdict
“rocade” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,951
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne parallèle au front de combat, reliant les divers secteurs et sur laquelle les troupes peuvent se transporter d’un point à un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rocade · rocade · French
rocade · rank #29,951 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,951
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH robustesse
Nearest frequency peer: robustesse (-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 « rocade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- riga
riga
70,053 corpus weight
- rise
rise
70,052 corpus weight
- robustesse
robustesse
70,051 corpus weight
- rocade
rocade
70,050 corpus weight
- roulante
roulante
70,048 corpus weight
- rousses
rousses
70,047 corpus weight
What this shows « rocade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | rocade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.kad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rocade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rocade (IPA \ʁo.kad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,951 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rocade, with forms such as "orcade", "rcoade", and "roacde". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ronde", "roche", "royale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rocade, spelled R-O-C-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ligne parallèle au front de combat, reliant les divers secteurs et sur laquelle les troupes peuvent se transporter d’un point à un autre.
- 2Boulevard périphérique partiel.
- 3Câble multipaire utilisé pour relier les répartiteurs et les sous-répartiteurs dans les systèmes de pré-câblage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rocade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ligne, route, voie de rocade.
Il fallait, aussi, substituer aux grandes percées, rocades ou radiales, la continuation du réseau viaire parisien, en abandonnant la multitude d’alignements nouveaux envisagés à la période précédente et dont le résultat le plus tangible avait été la création de ces « dents creuses » qui déparent tant de rues parisiennes, sans espoir de voir l’alignement g…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orcade
- rcoade
- roacde
- rocadde
- rocaed
- roccade
- rocdae
- rrocade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rocade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).