roos
\roːs\
The verdict
“roos” is uncommon French (frequency #86,128 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,128
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rose (fleur).
Corpus desk
Index FR-roos · roos · French
roos · rank #86,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,128
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH romandes
Nearest frequency peer: romandes (-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 « roos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ripaille
ripaille
13,877 corpus weight
- rishi
rishi
13,876 corpus weight
- romandes
romandes
13,875 corpus weight
- roos
roos
13,873 corpus weight
- rouche
rouche
13,871 corpus weight
- roulades
roulades
13,870 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \roːs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roos is uncommon French at frequency #86,128 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \roːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for roos in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is roos, spelled R-O-O-S.
Definition
- 1Rose (fleur).
- 2Pellicule.
- 3Mille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
midden in de roos!
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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