rosaire
\ʁo.zɛʁ\
The verdict
“rosaire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,335
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand chapelet consacré à la Vierge, composé de quinze dizaines de petits grains appelés ave, précédées chacune d’un grain plus gros appelé pater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rosaire · rosaire · French
rosaire · rank #28,335 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,335
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roquefort
Nearest frequency peer: roquefort (-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 « rosaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retraçant
retraçant
71,669 corpus weight
- revendiquant
revendiquant
71,668 corpus weight
- roquefort
roquefort
71,667 corpus weight
- rosaire
rosaire
71,666 corpus weight
- réclamée
réclamée
71,664 corpus weight
- réformiste
réformiste
71,663 corpus weight
What this shows « rosaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rosaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rosaire (IPA \ʁo.zɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,335 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rosaire, with forms such as "orsaire", "roasire", and "rosaier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rosalie", "refaire", "romaine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 rosaire, spelled R-O-S-A-I-R-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rosaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Messire ermite, quand vous seriez le plus saint de tous les ermites qui aient jamais porté la barbe ou compté les grains d’un rosaire, vous ne me déterminerez pas à suivre une telle route cette nuit.
Elle priait à voix basse devant le chevalier, comme elle aurait pu faire devant le Christ ou devant un martyr, et tenait à la main un rosaire à grains d’ébène incrustés de nacre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orsaire
- roasire
- rosaier
- rosairre
- rosarie
- rosiare
- rossaire
- rrosaire
- rsoaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rosaire - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).