rocailleuse
\ʁɔ.ka.jøz\
The verdict
“rocailleuse” is uncommon French (frequency #79,689 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,689
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui exécute des ouvrages de rocaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rocailleuse · rocailleuse · French
rocailleuse · rank #79,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,689
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rion
Nearest frequency peer: rion (-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 « rocailleuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- richissimes
richissimes
20,315 corpus weight
- rion
rion
20,313 corpus weight
- rocailleuse
rocailleuse
20,312 corpus weight
- Rollon
Rollon
20,311 corpus weight
- rondin
rondin
20,310 corpus weight
- Rostock
Rostock
20,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rocailleuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocailleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ka.jøz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rocailleuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rocailleuse is uncommon French at frequency #79,689 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.ka.jøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui exécute des ouvrages de rocaille.".
rocailleuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 rocailleuse, spelled R-O-C-A-I-L-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui exécute des ouvrages de rocaille.
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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