rocambolesques
\ʁɔ.kɑ̃.bɔ.lɛsk\
The verdict
“rocambolesques” is uncommon French (frequency #66,305 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,305
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rocambolesque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rocambolesques · rocambolesques · French
rocambolesques · rank #66,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,305
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rioja
Nearest frequency peer: rioja (-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 « rocambolesques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rha
Rha
33,699 corpus weight
- rhésus
rhésus
33,698 corpus weight
- rioja
rioja
33,697 corpus weight
- rocambolesq…
rocambolesques
33,696 corpus weight
- Rodier
Rodier
33,695 corpus weight
- Romanov
Romanov
33,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rocambolesques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocambolesques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.kɑ̃.bɔ.lɛsk\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #66,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rocambolesques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rocambolesques is uncommon French at frequency #66,305 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɔ.kɑ̃.bɔ.lɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rocambolesque.".
rocambolesques doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rocambolesques, spelled R-O-C-A-M-B-O-L-E-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rocambolesque.
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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