rôdeur
\ʁo.dœʁ\
The verdict
“rôdeur” is uncommon French (frequency #51,729 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,729
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rôde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rodeur · rôdeur · French
rôdeur · rank #51,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rétractable
Nearest frequency peer: rétractable (-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 « rôdeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- résonnance
résonnance
48,275 corpus weight
- résulta
résulta
48,274 corpus weight
- rétractable
rétractable
48,273 corpus weight
- rôdeur
rôdeur
48,272 corpus weight
- saisisse
saisisse
48,271 corpus weight
- saler
saler
48,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rôdeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rôdeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁo.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rôdeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rôdeur is uncommon French at frequency #51,729 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁo.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui rôde.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rôdeur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rôdeur, spelled R-Ô-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui rôde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rôdeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et les pâtes superbement se lèvent Et les boudins jutent de sève, Et la rôdeuse odeur de leur cuisson Courant de bouge en ferme et de ferme en maison La prétentaine, Fait se pâmer, à l’unisson, Les nez, les cœurs et les bedaines.
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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