rosaire
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,335
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
rosaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grand chapelet consacré à la Vierge, composé de quinze dizaines de petits grains appelés ave, précédées chacune d’un grain plus gros appelé pater. Pronounced \ʁo.zɛʁ\. Often confused with rosalie and refaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rosaire is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁo.zɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,335 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for rosaire, with forms such as "orsaire", "roasire", and "rosaier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rosalie", "refaire", "romaine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rosaire, spelled R-O-S-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grand chapelet consacré à la Vierge, composé de quinze dizaines de petits grains appelés ave, précédées chacune d’un grain plus gros appelé pater.
- 2Prière de dévotion catholique consistant à invoquer la Vierge Marie et à méditer sur les mystères de sa vie et de celle de son fils Jésus-Christ.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orsaire,roasire,rosaier,rosairre,rosarie,rosiare,rossaire,rrosaire,rsoaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rosaire
Misspelling Variants of "rosaire"
Frequency rank: #28,335 in French
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