rooftop
\ʁuf.tɔp\
The verdict
“rooftop” is uncommon French (frequency #81,520 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,520
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toit-terrasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rooftop · rooftop · French
rooftop · rank #81,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,520
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rodés
Nearest frequency peer: Rodés (-2 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 « rooftop »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rivals
rivals
18,486 corpus weight
- Rodés
Rodés
18,483 corpus weight
- rooftop
rooftop
18,481 corpus weight
- russophone
russophone
18,479 corpus weight
- Rwandaises
Rwandaises
18,477 corpus weight
- réagiraient
réagiraient
18,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rooftop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rooftop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁuf.tɔp\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rooftop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rooftop is uncommon French at frequency #81,520 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁuf.tɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Toit-terrasse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rooftop in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rooftop, spelled R-O-O-F-T-O-P.
Definition
- 1Toit-terrasse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rooftop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À travers ces portraits, l’auteure offre une vision différentes de la Big Apple avec des témoignages sur cette ville aux mille lumières et qui ne cesse d'évoluer, entre ses rooftops, ses restaurants, ses quartiers qui se diversifient.
Et pour ceux qui auraient besoin de faire une pause, ou qui auraient subitement le vertige, un rooftop bar vous proposera vin chaud, chocolat chaud, crêpes salées et sucrées.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).