rosée
\ʁo.ze\
The verdict
“rosée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,079
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vapeur d’eau de l’atmosphère, qui se condense par le refroidissement dû au rayonnement nocturne et qui se dépose surtout sur les corps qui sont mauvais conducteurs de la chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rosee · rosée · French
rosée · rank #22,079 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,079
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rolls
Nearest frequency peer: rolls (-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 « rosée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- robustes
robustes
77,925 corpus weight
- Rodez
Rodez
77,924 corpus weight
- rolls
rolls
77,923 corpus weight
- rosée
rosée
77,922 corpus weight
- Roth
Roth
77,921 corpus weight
- rwandais
rwandais
77,920 corpus weight
What this shows « rosée » 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 | rosée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rosée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rosée (IPA \ʁo.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,079 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rosée, with forms such as "orsée", "rosee", and "roseé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RSE", "Ross", "ruée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 rosée, spelled R-O-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Vapeur d’eau de l’atmosphère, qui se condense par le refroidissement dû au rayonnement nocturne et qui se dépose surtout sur les corps qui sont mauvais conducteurs de la chaleur.
- 2Serein, rosée du soir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rosée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’air rafraîchi où une impalpable brume se condensait en rosée, les bêtes levèrent leur mufle humide […].
Et sais-tu ce que je me disais à l’instant, en t’apercevant, si gracieuse, qui cueillais les fleurs parmi la rosée du matin ? Que les jeunes Parisiennes, et même que les houris qui nous attendent au paradis sont, à coup sûr, moins belles que toi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orsée
- rosee
- roseé
- rossée
- roése
- rrosée
- rsoée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rosée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).