rosette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,233
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
rosette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nœud de ruban, d’un ruban noué en forme de rose. Pronounced \ʁo.zɛt\. Often confused with roulette and rosée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.zɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rosette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁo.zɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,233 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for rosette, with forms such as "orsette", "roestte", and "rosete". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "roulette", "rosée", "recette", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rosette, spelled R-O-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nœud de ruban, d’un ruban noué en forme de rose.
- 2Insigne que les officiers de la Légion d’honneur portent à leur boutonnière.
- 3Petits fleurons de métal que les couteliers emploient pour monter les rasoirs, les lancettes, etc.
- 4Ensemble de feuilles nombreuses, étalées et formant un cercle à la base de la tige d’une plante. Les plantes bisannuelles comportent souvent une rosette.
- 5Espèce de lépidoptère (Miltochrista miniata) de la famille des Arctiidae, dont le dos des ailes est de couleur rose-orangé.
- 6Partie distale de l’intestin de porc, rectum, servant à l’embossage des saucissons, il est aussi nommé fuseau.
- 7Long saucisson sec fabriqué dans la région lyonnaise, sa viande est embossée dans la partie distale de l’intestin de porc, le fuseau.
- 8Petit cadran où pointe l'aiguille pour avancer ou retarder le mouvement d’une montre, d'un réveil, etc.
- 9Petite rose de certains ornements de cette forme et que l’on emploie dans la broderie et dans la sculpture.
- 10Obturateur utérin utilisé par les femmes pour leur contraception.
- 11Cuivre rouge
- 12Motifs arrondis et roséiformes qui caractérisent la robe de certains animaux, en particulier des félins.
- 13Ornement circulaire, en métal, percé d'un trou central destiné à laisser passer la tige d'une poignée, d'un bouton de porte.
- 14Anus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orsette,roestte,rosete,rosetet,rossette,rostete,rrosette,rsoette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rosette
Misspelling Variants of "rosette"
Frequency rank: #31,233 in French
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