roseau

\ʁo.zo\

/\ʁo.zo\/ noun

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The verdict

“roseau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,572. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,572
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant du phragmite (Phragmites australis).

Corpus desk

Index FR-roseau · roseau · French

roseau · rank #36,572 · 7 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,572
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rif

Nearest frequency peer: rif (-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 « roseau »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « roseau » 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).

roseau vs roses
67% similar
roseau vs rosée
50% similar
roseau vs Rosen
50% similar

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

Key facts for roseau
PropertyValue
Headwordroseau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁo.zo\
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,572
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « roseau »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rif » (#36,571), « roulements » (#36,573), « reviews » (#36,570). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « roseau » est au #36,572. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around roseau (IPA \ʁo.zo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,572 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for roseau, with forms such as "orseau", "roesau", and "rosaeu". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "roses", "rosée", "Rosen", 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. The correct French form is roseau, spelled R-O-S-E-A-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom courant du phragmite (Phragmites australis).
  2. 2
    Nom d’autres plantes, d’aspect et d’écologie (plantes sociales) similaires.
  3. 3
    Calame.
  4. 4
    Anche. Instrument à anche (hautbois, clarinette, saxophone, bombarde…).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […]; le sol s’affaisse en s’asséchant. Pour l’affermir, il faut d'abord brûler les choins, massettes, roseaux, et, pour cela, tenir le marais le plus à sec possible, […].
  2. SÉBASTIEN : Ariel, écoute-moi. Le monde humain, c’est la pagaille. La vie sous la mer, c’est bien mieux que la vie qu’ils ont sur la terre. Le roseau est toujours plus vert dans le marais d’à côté Toi, t’aimerais bien vivre sur terre, bonjour la calamité !

This word in other languages

cane(English)caña(Español)Ried(Deutsch)cana(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orseau
  • roesau
  • rosaeu
  • roseua
  • rosseau
  • rroseau
  • rsoeau

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roseau - 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.

orseau2roesau2rosaeu2roseua2rosseau1rroseau1rsoeau2
Edit distance from "roseau"

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 "roseau"?
"roseau" is spelled R-O-S-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁo.zo\.
What does "roseau" mean?
As a noun, "roseau" means: Nom courant du phragmite (Phragmites australis).
What words are commonly confused with "roseau"?
"roseau" is commonly confused with "roses", "rosée", "Rosen". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "roseau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roseau" is \ʁo.zo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roseau" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

relaie#36,563ratent#36,558Sevran#36,589simili#36,591

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

scala7 variantsserrait7 variantssonar7 variantsStasi7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list