rodomontade
\ʁɔ.dɔ.mɔ̃.tad\
The verdict
“rodomontade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attitude prétentieuse et ridicule, langage d’un rodomont, fanfaronnade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rodomontade · rodomontade · French
rodomontade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rodomontade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.dɔ.mɔ̃.tad\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rodomontade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.dɔ.mɔ̃.tad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attitude prétentieuse et ridicule, langage d’un rodomont, fanfaronnade.".
rodomontade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rodomontade, spelled R-O-D-O-M-O-N-T-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Attitude prétentieuse et ridicule, langage d’un rodomont, fanfaronnade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rodomontade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le capitaine oserait-il venir ? ou bien sa proposition n’était-elle qu’une rodomontade ?
Par sécheresse de cœur et par ironie, il s’était interdit de nourrir des idées sur le monde. Philosophie, art, politique ou morale, tout système lui paraissait une impossible rodomontade. Aussi, faute d’être soutenu par des idées, le monde était si inconsistant qu’il ne lui offrait aucun appui. Les seuls solides gardaient pour lui une forme.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.