romanche
\ʁɔ.mɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“romanche” is uncommon French (frequency #88,047 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,047
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue romane parlée en Suisse, dans le canton des Grisons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romanche · romanche · French
romanche · rank #88,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,047
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rizzuto
Nearest frequency peer: Rizzuto (-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 « romanche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rincez
rincez
11,958 corpus weight
- riquiqui
riquiqui
11,957 corpus weight
- rivette
rivette
11,956 corpus weight
- Rizzuto
Rizzuto
11,955 corpus weight
- romanche
romanche
11,954 corpus weight
- roulier
roulier
11,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « romanche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | romanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « romanche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
romanche is uncommon French at frequency #88,047 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.mɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue romane parlée en Suisse, dans le canton des Grisons.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for romanche in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is romanche, spelled R-O-M-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Langue romane parlée en Suisse, dans le canton des Grisons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how romanche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le romanche comprend six formes écrites, le vallader, le puter, le sursilvan, le sutsilvan, le surmiran et le rumantsch grischun.
Logiquement, tout devrait tendre à une simplification des langues et donc à l’abandon programmé de celles qui le sont peu, et en premier lieu le romanche.
This word in other languages
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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