rook
\rʊk\
The verdict
“rook” is uncommon French (frequency #93,195 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,195
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corbeau freux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rook · rook · French
rook · rank #93,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,195
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rompait
Nearest frequency peer: rompait (-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 « rook »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rink
rink
6,814 corpus weight
- rompait
rompait
6,807 corpus weight
- rook
rook
6,806 corpus weight
- rousseurs
rousseurs
6,803 corpus weight
- RPDC
RPDC
6,801 corpus weight
- rusk
rusk
6,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rook » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rʊk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rook » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rook is uncommon French at frequency #93,195 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \rʊk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rook, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 rook, spelled R-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Corbeau freux.
- 2Escroc, arnaqueur.
Synonyms
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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