rocaille
\ʁɔ.kaj\
The verdict
“rocaille” is uncommon French (frequency #56,231 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,231
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Désigne un terrain couvert de cailloux, un amas de pierres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.kaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rocaille” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rocaille is uncommon French at frequency #56,231 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.kaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rocaille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 rocaille, spelled R-O-C-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Désigne un terrain couvert de cailloux, un amas de pierres.
- 2Décor de pierres érigé dans les jardins pour simuler un style alpestre et dans lesquels sont plantés des végétaux de petites tailles.
- 3Morceaux de minéraux, pierres, cailloux que l’on utilisait, associés avec des coquillages, pour construire et décorer des grottes artificielles et des décorations dans les jardins.
- 4Genre de décoration en usage au XVIIIᵉ siècle, à l’époque de la Régence, dans l’architecture et le mobilier, et interprétant des motifs inspirés de formes de la nature.
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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Using “rocaille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-C-A-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɔ.kaj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.