rogue

\ʁɔɡ\

/\ʁɔɡ\/ adj

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The verdict

“rogue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,845) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#20,845
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est hautain, arrogant, d’un abord raide et désagréable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rogue · rogue · French

rogue · rank #20,845 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,845
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH royalistes

Nearest frequency peer: royalistes (+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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rogue »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « rogue » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rogue vs rue
60% similar
rogue vs rou
60% similar
rogue vs rôle
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rogue
PropertyValue
Headwordrogue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁɔɡ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#20,845
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rogue »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.roguese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « royalistes » (#20,846), « rivages » (#20,843), « risquerait » (#20,842). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rogue » est au #20,845. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for rogue is neighbouring look-alikes ("rue", "rou", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ʁɔɡ\. Frequency #20,845 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Qui est hautain, arrogant, d’un abord raide et désagréable.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for rogue, with forms such as "rgoue", "rogeu", and "roggue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "rou", "rôle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rogue, spelled R-O-G-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est hautain, arrogant, d’un abord raide et désagréable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rogue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et donc, Pirogov n’avait pas arrêté de poursuivre l’inconnue, en l’occupant, de temps en temps, de questions auxquelles elle répondait d’un ton rogue.
  2. Prenez la température de votre malade toutes les deux heures, ordonna-t-il d'une voix rogue, cela n'aidera pas à grand-chose mais cela vous empêchera de dormir.

This word in other languages

arrogante(Español)anmaßend(Deutsch)arrogante(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rgoue
  • rogeu
  • roggue
  • rrogue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rogue - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rgoue2rogeu2roggue1rrogue1
Edit distance from "rogue"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rogue"?
"rogue" is spelled R-O-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔɡ\.
What does "rogue" mean?
As an adjective, "rogue" means: Qui est hautain, arrogant, d’un abord raide et désagréable.
What words are commonly confused with "rogue"?
"rogue" is commonly confused with "rue", "rou", "rôle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rogue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rogue" is \ʁɔɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rogue" come from?
"rogue" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rogue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

silex#20,854quote#20,831Sushi#20,863tirez#20,867

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list