rocky
\ʁɔ.ki\
The verdict
“rocky” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,257
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne faisant du rock, ou d’un style rappelant le rock.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rocky · rocky · French
rocky · rank #17,257 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,257
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rolling
Nearest frequency peer: rolling (+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 « rocky »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ressuscité
ressuscité
82,748 corpus weight
- restituer
restituer
82,747 corpus weight
- Reynolds
Reynolds
82,746 corpus weight
- rocky
rocky
82,744 corpus weight
- rolling
rolling
82,743 corpus weight
- rédacteurs
rédacteurs
82,740 corpus weight
What this shows « rocky » 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 | rocky |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ki\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rocky »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rocky (IPA \ʁɔ.ki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,257 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne faisant du rock, ou d’un style rappelant le rock.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rocky, with forms such as "orcky", "rcoky", and "roccky". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "roy", "Rory", "Romy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rocky, spelled R-O-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Personne faisant du rock, ou d’un style rappelant le rock.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rocky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autre fois, c’était place des Vosges, il y a deux rockys qui arrivent, vraiment des rockys, habillés tout en noir, foulard noir, les santiags hyper-pointues avec le bout de ferraille au bout…
Y’a pourtant des rockys. Qu’ont dû avoir les boules. En m’voyant applaudi. Même par des babas cools.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orcky
- rcoky
- roccky
- rockky
- rockyy
- rocyk
- rokcy
- rrocky
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rocky - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).