rocher
\ʁɔ.ʃe\
The verdict
“rocher” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,437 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,437
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rocher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rocher” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rocher is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,437 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée.
- 2Matière minérale qui constitue un rocher, on dit plutôt roche.
- 3Personnage au cœur dur, insensible.
- 4Une des trois parties de l’os temporal, qui est très forte et très dure.
- 5Sucrerie ou confiserie en forme de petit rocher.
- 6Petite pâtisserie à base de noix de coco de sucre et de blanc d'œuf. Macaron, congolais.
- 7Synonyme de petite roussette (requin) (parce qu’il affectionne les parties rocheuses de la mer).
- 8Escalade de paroi rocheuses.
- 9Meuble 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.
- 10Poste de travail dans une mine où l’on est chargé de creuser la galerie pour atteindre la veine de minerai.
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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.
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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Using “rocher”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-C-H-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɔ.ʃe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Roger” - see the side-by-side comparison. rocher vs Roger
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.