roche
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,799
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
roche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bloc minéral d’origine naturelle et dure. Pronounced \ʁɔʃ\. It ranks #4,799 in French word frequency. Often confused with roh and roe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,799 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for roche, with forms such as "orche", "rcohe", and "rocche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "roh", "roe", "rôle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roche, spelled R-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bloc minéral d’origine naturelle et dure.
- 2Masse de pierre sous l’eau ou à fleur d’eau ; écueil.
- 3Agrégat naturel de minéraux.
- 4La pierre la plus dure d’une carrière.
- 5Synonyme de gardon commun (poisson).
- 6Pierre, caillou.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orche,rcohe,rocche,roceh,rochhe,rohce,rroche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for roche
Misspelling Variants of "roche"
Frequency rank: #4,799 in French
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