rosebud

\ʁoz.bød\

/\ʁoz.bød\/ noun

The verdict

“rosebud” is uncommon French (frequency #85,236 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,236
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bijou anal, plug anal dont la partie extérieure est décorée, ornée d’une verroterie à facette.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rosebud · rosebud · French

rosebud · rank #85,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,236
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH roupiller

Nearest frequency peer: roupiller (+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 « rosebud »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rosebud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rosebud
PropertyValue
Headwordrosebud
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁoz.bød\
Letters7
Frequency rank#85,236
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rosebud » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rosebudtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « roupiller » (#85,237), « ruz » (#85,239), « rockeuse » (#85,232). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rosebud » est au #85,236. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rosebud is uncommon French at frequency #85,236 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁoz.bød\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bijou anal, plug anal dont la partie extérieure est décorée, ornée d’une verroterie à facette.".

rosebud has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rosebud, spelled R-O-S-E-B-U-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bijou anal, plug anal dont la partie extérieure est décorée, ornée d’une verroterie à facette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Un rosebud est composé de deux parties, la première qui va servir à pénétrer l’anus un peu a la manière d’un plug ou d’une boule de geisha et qui a généralement une forme ovale et pointue à l’extrémité afin de faciliter la pénétration (…) La seconde extrémité correspond à la partie esthétique. Souvent ornée d’une pierre ou d’un bijou, c’est la partie visi…

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 "rosebud"?
"rosebud" is spelled R-O-S-E-B-U-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁoz.bød\.
What does "rosebud" mean?
As a noun, "rosebud" means: Bijou anal, plug anal dont la partie extérieure est décorée, ornée d’une verroterie à facette.
How do you pronounce "rosebud"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rosebud" is \ʁoz.bød\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list