rochas
\ʁɔ.ʃa\
The verdict
“rochas” is uncommon French (frequency #74,340 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,340
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de rocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rochas · rochas · French
rochas · rank #74,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,340
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ricaine
Nearest frequency peer: ricaine (-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 « rochas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revêtait
revêtait
25,664 corpus weight
- Reynald
Reynald
25,663 corpus weight
- ricaine
ricaine
25,662 corpus weight
- rochas
rochas
25,661 corpus weight
- rocs
rocs
25,660 corpus weight
- roitelet
roitelet
25,659 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rochas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rochas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rochas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rochas is uncommon French at frequency #74,340 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔ.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de rocher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rochas, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 rochas, spelled R-O-C-H-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de rocher.
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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