roder
\ʁɔ.de\
The verdict
“roder” is uncommon French (frequency #58,905 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,905
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - User, polir par le frottement les contours ou les angles d’une pièce pour qu’elle s’adapte à une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roder · roder · French
roder · rank #58,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,905
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rojava
Nearest frequency peer: rojava (+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 « roder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revista
revista
41,100 corpus weight
- revoient
revoient
41,099 corpus weight
- Rhodanien
Rhodanien
41,098 corpus weight
- roder
roder
41,096 corpus weight
- rojava
rojava
41,095 corpus weight
- rupestres
rupestres
41,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.de\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roder is uncommon French at frequency #58,905 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for roder, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is roder, spelled R-O-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1User, polir par le frottement les contours ou les angles d’une pièce pour qu’elle s’adapte à une autre.
- 2Faire fonctionner progressivement un moteur neuf ou le véhicule qui le contient, afin que les pièces en contact s’adaptent les unes aux autres.
- 3Mettre au point ou à l’épreuve, acquérir une expérience dans un domaine, s’adapter.
- 4Chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Roder une soupape.
« Et si le canal était barré par des grilles de fer ! objecta tout d’abord la voix de la prudence. — Qui ne risque rien n’a rien ! Les limes n’ont pas été inventées pour roder les bouchons, et il y en a d’excellentes dans le laboratoire ! » répliqua une autre voix ironique, celle qui dicte les résolutions hardies.
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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