roi

/\ʁwa\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#547

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

roi is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \ʁwa\. It ranks #547 in French word frequency. Often confused with RT and RP.

Key facts for roi
PropertyValue
Headwordroi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁwa\
Letters3
Frequency rank#547
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of roi in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for roi is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for roi in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roi, spelled R-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Celui qui est à la tête d’une collectivité.
  3. 3
    Homme qui occupe une position éminente dans un domaine, qui excelle dans sa partie, qui surpasse ses pareils ; celui dont on accomplit toutes les volontés.
  4. 4
    Ellipse de roi des cons.
  5. 5
    Aux cartes, chacune des quatre cartes qui représente une figure masculine couronnée.
  6. 6
    Pièce la plus importante du jeu d’échecs dont il faut s’emparer pour gagner la partie.
  7. 7
    Roi mage, personnage de la Bible venu adorer Jésus à sa naissance.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #547 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roi"?
"roi" is spelled R-O-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁwa\.
What does "roi" mean?
As a noun, "roi" means: 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.
What words are commonly confused with "roi"?
"roi" is commonly confused with "RT", "RP", "ru". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "roi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roi" is \ʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roi" come from?
"roi" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.