romain

\ʁɔ.mɛ̃\

/\ʁɔ.mɛ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“romain” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,289
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la civilisation des Romains, un peuple de l’Antiquité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-romain · romain · French

romain · rank #3,289 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,289
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH restauration

Nearest frequency peer: restauration (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « romain »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « romain » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

romain vs Ronan
50% similar
romain vs royan
67% similar
romain vs Rowan
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for romain
PropertyValue
Headwordromain
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁɔ.mɛ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,289
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « romain »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).romainse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « restauration » (#3,288), « réalise » (#3,290), « renseignements » (#3,287). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « romain » est au #3,289. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around romain (IPA \ʁɔ.mɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,289 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for romain, with forms such as "ormain", "rmoain", and "roamin". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ronan", "royan", "Rowan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is romain, spelled R-O-M-A-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à la civilisation des Romains, un peuple de l’Antiquité.
  2. 2
    Relatif aux personnes et choses qui appartenaient à l’ancienne Rome.
  3. 3
    Qualifie ce qui rappelle la grandeur d’âme, le courage, l’austérité, le patriotisme des anciens Romains.
  4. 4
    Relatif à la ville de Rome et à ses habitants.
  5. 5
    Relatif à Rom, commune française située dans le département des Deux-Sèvres.
  6. 6
    Relatif à Romery, commune française située dans le département de la Marne.
  7. 7
    Qualifie le caractère d’imprimerie rond et droit, en usage en France depuis le seizième siècle pour le texte courant. → voir romain, ci-dessous.
  8. 8
    Qualifie la beauté d’une femme qui a de grands traits bien marqués et un air, un port majestueux.
  9. 9
    Qualifie ce qui appartient à la Rome moderne considérée surtout comme le siège de la religion catholique, dont le pape est le chef.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how romain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Rome envahit la Gaule, rapidement soumise à ses armes, et bientôt romaine par la langue et les coutumes.
  2. Cette interprétation n’empêche pas pour autant d’envisager que ce chemin soit datable aussi de l’époque romaine et qu’il ait été réutilisé à l’époque médiévale.

This word in other languages

Roman(English)romano(Español)romão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ormain
  • rmoain
  • roamin
  • romainn
  • romian
  • rommain
  • rromain

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romain - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ormain2rmoain2roamin2romainn1romian2rommain1rromain1
Edit distance from "romain"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "romain"?
"romain" is spelled R-O-M-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.mɛ̃\.
What does "romain" mean?
As an adjective, "romain" means: Relatif à la civilisation des Romains, un peuple de l’Antiquité.
What words are commonly confused with "romain"?
"romain" is commonly confused with "Ronan", "royan", "Rowan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "romain"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "romain" is \ʁɔ.mɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "romain" come from?
"romain" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "romain", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list