rocher
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,437
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rocher is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée. Pronounced \ʁɔ.ʃe\. It ranks #6,437 in French word frequency. Often confused with Roger and ruche.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rocher is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for rocher, with forms such as "orcher", "rcoher", and "roccher". 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, "Roger", "ruche", "rover", 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 rocher, spelled R-O-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rocher
Misspelling Variants of "rocher"
Frequency rank: #6,437 in French
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