roof
\ʁuf\
The verdict
“roof” is uncommon French (frequency #61,858 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,858
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de rouf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roof · roof · French
roof · rank #61,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Romorantin
Nearest frequency peer: Romorantin (-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 « roof »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roberge
roberge
38,147 corpus weight
- robotics
robotics
38,146 corpus weight
- robotiques
robotiques
38,145 corpus weight
- Romorantin
Romorantin
38,144 corpus weight
- roof
roof
38,143 corpus weight
- rugit
rugit
38,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roof » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁuf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roof » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roof is uncommon French at frequency #61,858 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁuf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de rouf.".
roof doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roof, spelled R-O-O-F.
Definition
- 1Variante de rouf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roof appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait l’air achevé, ses bouchains ronds étaient tous solidement assemblés, ses plats-bords attendaient de recevoir le pont et l’espèce de roof dont les structures reposaient au milieu d’un fouillis de bambous et de bois destinés à la mâture.
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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