rosière
\ʁo.zjɛʁ\
The verdict
“rosière” is uncommon French (frequency #72,701 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,701
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune fille vertueuse qui, dans certains villages, obtient la couronne de roses destinée à être le prix de la sagesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rosiere · rosière · French
rosière · rank #72,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,701
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosalind
Nearest frequency peer: Rosalind (-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 « rosière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- romantic
romantic
27,303 corpus weight
- ronronner
ronronner
27,302 corpus weight
- Rosalind
Rosalind
27,301 corpus weight
- rosière
rosière
27,300 corpus weight
- Rosières
Rosières
27,299 corpus weight
- Rotenberg
Rotenberg
27,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rosière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.zjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rosière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rosière is uncommon French at frequency #72,701 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁo.zjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rosière has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rosière, spelled R-O-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune fille vertueuse qui, dans certains villages, obtient la couronne de roses destinée à être le prix de la sagesse.
- 2Jeune fille innocente, naïve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rosière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mˡˡᵉ Jeanne se levait, s’arrangeait un peu les cheveux, suivait la placeuse dans le bureau d’où elle revenait quelques minutes après, une grimace de dédain aux lèvres. On n’avait pas trouvé ses certificats suffisants… Qu’est-ce qu’il leur fallait ?… Le prix Montyon alors ?… Un diplôme de rosière ?
Te dirai-je qu’il fut un temps où, par chez nous, on ne récompensait plus la rosière, mais la fillette la mieux engrossée de l’année ! Il fallut y renoncer devant les abus de tous ordres où nos gens qui sont forts au gain ne manquaient pas de se laisser entraîner.
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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