rodent
\ʁɔd\
The verdict
“rodent” is uncommon French (frequency #89,101 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,101
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de roder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rodent · rodent · French
rodent · rank #89,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,101
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roussette
Nearest frequency peer: roussette (+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 « rodent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rituellement
rituellement
10,904 corpus weight
- rodent
rodent
10,900 corpus weight
- roussette
roussette
10,899 corpus weight
- router
router
10,898 corpus weight
- Ruffalo
Ruffalo
10,896 corpus weight
- ruta
ruta
10,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rodent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rodent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rodent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rodent is uncommon French at frequency #89,101 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rodent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rodent, spelled R-O-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de roder.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de roder.
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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