Rodier
\ʁɔ.dje\
The verdict
“Rodier” is uncommon French (frequency #66,306 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,306
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rodier · Rodier · French
Rodier · rank #66,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,306
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rocambolesques
Nearest frequency peer: rocambolesques (-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 « Rodier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rha
Rha
33,699 corpus weight
- rhésus
rhésus
33,698 corpus weight
- rioja
rioja
33,697 corpus weight
- rocambolesq…
rocambolesques
33,696 corpus weight
- Rodier
Rodier
33,695 corpus weight
- Romanov
Romanov
33,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rodier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rodier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.dje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rodier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rodier is uncommon French at frequency #66,306 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁɔ.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Rodier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Rodier, spelled R-O-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rodier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ces militaires sur le terrain permettent de dégager des policiers de tâches de surveillance classiques pour qu’ils se consacrent davantage à la sécurité directe des citoyens », considère l’ancien officier Alain Rodier, président du centre français de recherche sur le renseignement, tout en appelant à une vigilance accrue allant « du simple citoyen au co…
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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