rollmops
\ʁɔl.mɔps\
The verdict
“rollmops” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hareng cru roulé autour d’un cornichon et mariné dans du vinaigre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rollmops · rollmops · French
rollmops · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rollmops |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔl.mɔps\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rollmops” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rollmops is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔl.mɔps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hareng cru roulé autour d’un cornichon et mariné dans du vinaigre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rollmops in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rollmops, spelled R-O-L-L-M-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1Hareng cru roulé autour d’un cornichon et mariné dans du vinaigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rollmops appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon ami Somevski assaisonnait son rollmops de la fumée qu’il tirait d’une cigarette à bout de carton bistre.
Marco se sustentait à midi dans une crèmerie chaude près de la Bibliothèque, et le soir prenait chez elle du thé et des tartines, quand je ne réussissais pas à la garder chez moi, autour d’une table où les olives farcies et les rollmops remplaçaient potage et rôti.
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