rocailles
\ʁɔ.kaj\
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
- riu
riu
29,833 corpus weight
- rivalisé
rivalisé
29,831 corpus weight
- rocailles
rocailles
29,830 corpus weight
- Rohingya
Rohingya
29,829 corpus weight
- roleplay
roleplay
29,828 corpus weight
- rosées
rosées
29,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rocailles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.kaj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rocailles » en français
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
- 1Pluriel de rocaille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rocailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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