Rochelais

noun

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The verdict

“Rochelais” is uncommon French (frequency #54,857 among 507,453 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,857
frequency rank, French
507,453
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Habitant de La Roche-Posay, commune française située dans le département de la Vienne.

Key facts for Rochelais
PropertyValue
HeadwordRochelais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#54,857
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Rochelais” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Rochelais lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Rochelais is uncommon French at frequency #54,857 among 507,453 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for Rochelais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Rochelais, spelled R-O-C-H-E-L-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Habitant de La Roche-Posay, commune française située dans le département de la Vienne.
  2. 2
    Habitant de La Rochelle, commune française située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Rochelais"?
"Rochelais" is spelled R-O-C-H-E-L-A-I-S.
What does "Rochelais" mean?
As a noun, "Rochelais" means: Habitant de La Roche-Posay, commune française située dans le département de la Vienne.
What language does "Rochelais" come from?
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Using “Rochelais”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is R-O-C-H-E-L-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list