roi
\ʁwa\
The verdict
“roi” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #547 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #547
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Titre porté par celui qui règne sur un peuple, un État, en particulier un État monarchique, et qui tient sa fonction de l’hérédité ou de l’élection ; celui qui est à la tête d’un royaume.
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 | roi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roi is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #547 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for roi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is roi, spelled R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Titre porté par celui qui règne sur un peuple, un État, en particulier un État monarchique, et qui tient sa fonction de l’hérédité ou de l’élection ; celui qui est à la tête d’un royaume.
- 2Celui qui est à la tête d’une collectivité.
- 3Homme qui occupe une position éminente dans un domaine, qui excelle dans sa partie, qui surpasse ses pareils ; celui dont on accomplit toutes les volontés.
- 4Ellipse de roi des cons.
- 5Aux cartes, chacune des quatre cartes qui représente une figure masculine couronnée.
- 6Pièce la plus importante du jeu d’échecs dont il faut s’emparer pour gagner la partie.
- 7Roi mage, personnage de la Bible venu adorer Jésus à sa naissance.
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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Using “roi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “RT” - see the side-by-side comparison. roi vs RT
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.