rochet
\ʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“rochet” is uncommon French (frequency #56,892 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de surplis à manches étroites, que portent les évêques et divers autres ecclésiastiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rochet · rochet · French
rochet · rank #56,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,892
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rodríguez
Nearest frequency peer: Rodríguez (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rochet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Riboud
Riboud
43,114 corpus weight
- rivas
rivas
43,113 corpus weight
- rochet
rochet
43,109 corpus weight
- Rodríguez
Rodríguez
43,108 corpus weight
- Romainville
Romainville
43,107 corpus weight
- ronce
ronce
43,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rochet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rochet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rochet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rochet is uncommon French at frequency #56,892 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rochet in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rochet, spelled R-O-C-H-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de surplis à manches étroites, que portent les évêques et divers autres ecclésiastiques.
- 2Attribut symbolique de l'épiscopat.
- 3Mantelet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rochet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le clergé en soutane avec un grand manteau et un bonnet carré, ou en robe violette et en rochet, marchait en avant.
Au lieu du vieux prêtre attendu, c’était Monseigneur qui entrait, Monseigneur en rochet de dentelle, ayant l’étole violette et portant le vaisseau d’argent, où se trouvait l’huile des infirmes, bénite par lui-même le Jeudi saint.
This word in other languages
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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