rosa

\ʁo.za\

/\ʁo.za\/ verb

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The verdict

“rosa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,127
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de roser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rosa · rosa · French

rosa · rank #11,127 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,127
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rondes

Nearest frequency peer: rondes (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rosa »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rosa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rosa vs roy
50% similar
rosa vs RSS
0% similar
rosa vs RTS
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rosa
PropertyValue
Headwordrosa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁo.za\
Letters4
Frequency rank#11,127
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rosa »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rosase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rondes » (#11,126), « réorganisation » (#11,128), « Roma » (#11,125). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rosa » est au #11,127. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around rosa (IPA \ʁo.za\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,127 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de roser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how rosa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette phrase rosa les joues de l’impassible Camille.

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.

orsa2roas2rossa1rrosa1rsoa2
Edit distance from "rosa"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rosa"?
"rosa" is spelled R-O-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁo.za\.
What does "rosa" mean?
As a verb, "rosa" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de roser.
What words are commonly confused with "rosa"?
"rosa" is commonly confused with "roy", "RSS", "RTS". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rosa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rosa" is \ʁo.za\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rosa" come from?
"rosa" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rosa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Roma#11,125ring#11,123SMIC#11,133coke#11,190

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

conne5 variantseast5 variantsgaule5 variantsgeek5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list