rooster
\ˈɹuː.stə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“rooster” is uncommon French (frequency #74,345 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,345
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rooster · rooster · French
rooster · rank #74,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,345
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rony
Nearest frequency peer: rony (-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 « rooster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rochas
rochas
25,661 corpus weight
- rocs
rocs
25,660 corpus weight
- roitelet
roitelet
25,659 corpus weight
- rony
rony
25,657 corpus weight
- rooster
rooster
25,656 corpus weight
- ROR
ROR
25,655 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rooster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rooster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹuː.stə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rooster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rooster is uncommon French at frequency #74,345 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹuː.stə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coq.".
rooster doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rooster, spelled R-O-O-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Coq.
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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