rosbif
\ʁɔz.bif\
The verdict
“rosbif” is uncommon French (frequency #54,863 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,863
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viande de bœuf rôtie, et particulièrement l’aloyau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rosbif · rosbif · French
rosbif · rank #54,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,863
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rooms
Nearest frequency peer: rooms (-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 « rosbif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rohmer
Rohmer
45,141 corpus weight
- Rolle
Rolle
45,140 corpus weight
- rooms
rooms
45,139 corpus weight
- rosbif
rosbif
45,138 corpus weight
- roster
roster
45,137 corpus weight
- Ruf
Ruf
45,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rosbif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosbif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔz.bif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rosbif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rosbif is uncommon French at frequency #54,863 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔz.bif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rosbif, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rosbif, spelled R-O-S-B-I-F.
Definition
- 1Viande de bœuf rôtie, et particulièrement l’aloyau.
- 2Anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rosbif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vingt minutes avant de retirer le rosbif du feu, déballez-le pour en colorer les surfaces, débrochez-le sur un plafond, salez-le, tenez-le à l’étuve pendant une demi-heure; cette station à l’étuve attendrit singulièrement les viandes de bœuf rôties.
La viande, qui doit se révéler un peu ferme, provient souvent de tranche grasse, de rond de gîte, de gîte à la noix, mais les rosbifs aristocratiques peuvent être taillés dans le filet, le faux-filet ou le romsteck.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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