rognon
\ʁɔ.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“rognon” is uncommon French (frequency #84,262 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,262
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rein d’un animal, en parlant de certains animaux dont les reins sont bons à manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rognon · rognon · French
rognon · rank #84,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,262
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH romanisation
Nearest frequency peer: romanisation (+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 « rognon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ripou
ripou
15,742 corpus weight
- riziculture
riziculture
15,741 corpus weight
- rognon
rognon
15,739 corpus weight
- romanisation
romanisation
15,738 corpus weight
- rondelette
rondelette
15,737 corpus weight
- ronflait
ronflait
15,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rognon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rognon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rognon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rognon is uncommon French at frequency #84,262 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.ɲɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
rognon has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 rognon, spelled R-O-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Rein d’un animal, en parlant de certains animaux dont les reins sont bons à manger.
- 2Testicules d’animaux, animelles, daintiers ou rognons blancs.
- 3Testicule.
- 4Roche enrobée dans un minéral de nature différente.
- 5Petite table, dont le plateau, parfois entouré d'un rebord en saillie, affecte la forme stylisée d'un rognon (la même qu'un haricot). — Une table rognon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rognon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rognons de veau, de bœuf, de mouton à la brochette.
Le lendemain, après une route de quatre lieues, nous déjeunâmes avec des filets de bœuf, des côtelettes de mouton, des rognons sautés, de la salade et du vin de Champagne dans la petite ville de Pont-Croix.
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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