roi
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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
Frequency rank: #547 in French
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