romain

/\ʁɔ.mɛ̃\/ adj

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.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of romain in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

This word in other languages

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"

ormain6rmoain6roamin6romainn7romian6rommain7rromain7
Misspelling Variants of "romain"

Frequency rank: #3,289 in French

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 adj, "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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.