rocker
\ʁɔ.kœʁ\
The verdict
“rocker” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,984. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,984
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musicien qui joue ou chante du rock and roll (né dans les années 1950), le plus souvent appelé simplement rock depuis les années 1960.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rocker · rocker · French
rocker · rank #39,984 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,984
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rira
Nearest frequency peer: rira (-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 « rocker »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retraitée
retraitée
60,020 corpus weight
- retrouverai
retrouverai
60,019 corpus weight
- rira
rira
60,018 corpus weight
- rocker
rocker
60,017 corpus weight
- Rolf
Rolf
60,016 corpus weight
- rondeur
rondeur
60,015 corpus weight
What this shows « rocker » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | rocker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rocker »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rocker (IPA \ʁɔ.kœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,984 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Musicien qui joue ou chante du rock and roll (né dans les années 1950), le plus souvent appelé simplement rock depuis les années 1960.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rocker, with forms such as "orcker", "rcoker", and "roccker". 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", "rocky", "rover", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rocker, spelled R-O-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Musicien qui joue ou chante du rock and roll (né dans les années 1950), le plus souvent appelé simplement rock depuis les années 1960.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rocker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En fin de semaine, il officiait comme disc-jockey à « L’Enfer du Bagne », une discothèque hard sur la route d’Orange, où en plus de ses talents de manipulateur de saphirs, il devait prêter main-forte au service pendant l’heure du coup de feu, entre un tube de Jeanne Mas et le dernier Whapie-Doo-Whapie d’un rocker quinquagénaire.
«Faggot» est un terme dépréciatif mis par Mark Knopfler, le chanteur de Dire Straits, dans la bouche de deux installateurs d’appareils ménagers qui se moquent des rockers efféminés (cheveux longs, maquillage, boucles d'oreilles) qu’ils voient sur MTV pendant leurs heures de boulot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orcker
- rcoker
- roccker
- rocekr
- rockerr
- rockker
- rockre
- rokcer
- rrocker
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rocker - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).