romain
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,289
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
romain is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à la civilisation des Romains, un peuple de l’Antiquité. Pronounced \ʁɔ.mɛ̃\. It ranks #3,289 in French word frequency. Often confused with Ronan and royan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | romain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for romain is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.mɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,289 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for romain, with forms such as "ormain", "rmoain", and "roamin". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ronan", "royan", "Rowan", 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 romain, spelled R-O-M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la civilisation des Romains, un peuple de l’Antiquité.
- 2Relatif aux personnes et choses qui appartenaient à l’ancienne Rome.
- 3Qualifie ce qui rappelle la grandeur d’âme, le courage, l’austérité, le patriotisme des anciens Romains.
- 4Relatif à la ville de Rome et à ses habitants.
- 5Relatif à Rom, commune française située dans le département des Deux-Sèvres.
- 6Relatif à Romery, commune française située dans le département de la Marne.
- 7Qualifie le caractère d’imprimerie rond et droit, en usage en France depuis le seizième siècle pour le texte courant. → voir romain, ci-dessous.
- 8Qualifie la beauté d’une femme qui a de grands traits bien marqués et un air, un port majestueux.
- 9Qualifie ce qui appartient à la Rome moderne considérée surtout comme le siège de la religion catholique, dont le pape est le chef.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ormain,rmoain,roamin,romainn,romian,rommain,rromain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for romain
Misspelling Variants of "romain"
Frequency rank: #3,289 in French
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