roide
\ʁwad\
The verdict
“roide” is uncommon French (frequency #96,332 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,332
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui manque ou paraît manquer de souplesse, de grâce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roide · roide · French
roide · rank #96,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,332
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roan
Nearest frequency peer: roan (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « roide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Riyadh
Riyadh
3,671 corpus weight
- roan
roan
3,670 corpus weight
- roide
roide
3,669 corpus weight
- Rouart
Rouart
3,668 corpus weight
- rouleurs
rouleurs
3,667 corpus weight
- royautés
royautés
3,666 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁwad\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roide is uncommon French at frequency #96,332 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁwad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for roide in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roide, spelled R-O-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui manque ou paraît manquer de souplesse, de grâce.
- 2Qui est inflexible, opiniâtre, dur.
- 3Qui a une pente difficile à monter ou à descendre.
- 4Qui a un mouvement rapide et violent, une trajectoire très tendue.
- 5Qui est difficile à admettre, dur à accepter.
- 6Mort, raide mort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était si roide et si compassé à cheval, qu’il s’y fatiguait vite, et j’allais trop vite aussi pour lui.
Elle prend du tabac, se tient roide comme un pieu, se pose en femme considérable, et ressemble parfaitement à une momie à laquelle le galvanisme aurait rendu la vie pour un instant.
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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