roh
\ʁo\
The verdict
“roh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,371) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,371
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque l’agacement, voire l’exaspération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roh · roh · French
roh · rank #24,371 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,371
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rodrigo
Nearest frequency peer: Rodrigo (-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 « roh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- risquée
risquée
75,633 corpus weight
- Rocard
Rocard
75,632 corpus weight
- Rodrigo
Rodrigo
75,631 corpus weight
- roh
roh
75,630 corpus weight
- romancière
romancière
75,629 corpus weight
- Ronnie
Ronnie
75,628 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « roh » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ʁo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « roh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for roh is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ʁo\. Frequency #24,371 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Marque l’agacement, voire l’exaspération.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roh, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 roh, spelled R-O-H.
Definition
- 1Marque l’agacement, voire l’exaspération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Roh ! C’est pas vrai ! Tu le fais exprès. Sans rire. Ne fuis pas mes questions. S’il te plaît
Roh, y’en a marre de ne parler que des larmes ! Et les rires alors ?
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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