rocailles

\ʁɔ.kaj\

/\ʁɔ.kaj\/ noun

The verdict

“rocailles” is uncommon French (frequency #70,171 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,171
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rocaille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rocailles · rocailles · French

rocailles · rank #70,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,171
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rivalisé

Nearest frequency peer: rivalisé (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « rocailles »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rocailles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rocailles
PropertyValue
Headwordrocailles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ.kaj\
Letters9
Frequency rank#70,171
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rocailles » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rocaillestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « rivalisé » (#70,170), « Rohingya » (#70,172), « roleplay » (#70,173). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rocailles » est au #70,171. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rocailles is uncommon French at frequency #70,171 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.kaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rocaille.".

rocailles has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rocailles, spelled R-O-C-A-I-L-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de rocaille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La nature nous offre pourtant des exemples de rocailles ombragées les sols rocheux et pauvres ayant souvent été délaissés par l’agriculture tout à fait extraordinaires.

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 "rocailles"?
"rocailles" is spelled R-O-C-A-I-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.kaj\.
What does "rocailles" mean?
As a noun, "rocailles" means: Pluriel de rocaille.
How do you pronounce "rocailles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rocailles" is \ʁɔ.kaj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rocailles" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list