rococo
\ʁo.ko.ko\
The verdict
“rococo” is an uncommon French word, ranked #54,858 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #54,858
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit d'un style décoratif dérivant du baroque et de la rocaille qui fut en vogue dans la première moitié du dix-huitième siècle, particulièrement en Allemagne, en Autriche et en Italie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rococo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁo.ko.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rococo” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rococo is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁo.ko.ko\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,858 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
rococo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rococo, spelled R-O-C-O-C-O.
Definition
- 1Se dit d'un style décoratif dérivant du baroque et de la rocaille qui fut en vogue dans la première moitié du dix-huitième siècle, particulièrement en Allemagne, en Autriche et en Italie.
- 2Surchargé de fioritures, recherché à l’excès.
- 3Qui est suranné, passé de mode.
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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Using “rococo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-C-O-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁo.ko.ko\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.