rosa
\ʁo.za\
The verdict
“rosa” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #11,127 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #11,127
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de roser.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁo.za\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rosa” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rosa is 4 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁo.za\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,127 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de roser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rosa, with forms such as "orsa", "roas", and "rossa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "roy", "RSS", "RTS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rosa, spelled R-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de roser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orsa,roas,rossa,rrosa,rsoa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rosa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “rosa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁo.za\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “roy” - see the side-by-side comparison. rosa vs roy
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.