rocher

\ʁɔ.ʃe\

/\ʁɔ.ʃe\/ noun

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The verdict

“rocher” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,437
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rocher · rocher · French

rocher · rank #6,437 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,437
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH richesses

Nearest frequency peer: richesses (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rocher »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rocher » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rocher vs Roger
50% similar
rocher vs ruche
67% similar
rocher vs rover
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rocher
PropertyValue
Headwordrocher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ.ʃe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,437
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rocher »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rocherse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « richesses » (#6,436), « sacrifice » (#6,438), « renvoyer » (#6,435). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rocher » est au #6,437. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around rocher (IPA \ʁɔ.ʃe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,437 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rocher, with forms such as "orcher", "rcoher", and "roccher". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Roger", "ruche", "rover", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 rocher, spelled R-O-C-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée.
  2. 2
    Matière minérale qui constitue un rocher, on dit plutôt roche.
  3. 3
    Personnage au cœur dur, insensible.
  4. 4
    Une des trois parties de l’os temporal, qui est très forte et très dure.
  5. 5
    Sucrerie ou confiserie en forme de petit rocher.
  6. 6
    Petite pâtisserie à base de noix de coco de sucre et de blanc d'œuf. Macaron, congolais.
  7. 7
    Synonyme de petite roussette (requin) (parce qu’il affectionne les parties rocheuses de la mer).
  8. 8
    Escalade de paroi rocheuses.
  9. 9
    Meuble héraldique représentant une grosse pierre dans les armoiries. Il n’a pas de forme particulière et doit être entièrement visible. S’il touche un bord, on doit le blasonner comme mouvant. À rapprocher de colline, coupeaux, mont, montagne et pic.
  10. 10
    Poste de travail dans une mine où l’on est chargé de creuser la galerie pour atteindre la veine de minerai.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rocher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Profitant de la pleine lune, nous avons marché une partie de la nuit, et campé sur les hauts rochers de Franchard.
  2. Les rochers les impressionnaient, surtout Georgia.

Synonyms

pierrepartie pétreuse de l’os temporal

Antonyms

taille

This word in other languages

rock(English)peñasco(Español)Fels(Deutsch)rochedo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orcher
  • rcoher
  • roccher
  • rocehr
  • rocherr
  • rochher
  • rochre
  • rohcer
  • rrocher

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rocher - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

orcher2rcoher2roccher1rocehr2rocherr1rochher1rochre2rohcer2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rocher"?
"rocher" is spelled R-O-C-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.ʃe\.
What does "rocher" mean?
As a noun, "rocher" means: Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée.
What words are commonly confused with "rocher"?
"rocher" is commonly confused with "Roger", "ruche", "rover". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rocher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rocher" is \ʁɔ.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rocher" come from?
"rocher" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rocher", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list