rossa
\ʁɔ.sa\
The verdict
“rossa” is uncommon French (frequency #63,313 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,313
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rosser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rossa · rossa · French
rossa · rank #63,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,313
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rosas
Nearest frequency peer: rosas (-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 « rossa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rollo
Rollo
36,690 corpus weight
- rosas
rosas
36,689 corpus weight
- rossa
rossa
36,688 corpus weight
- Rougerie
Rougerie
36,687 corpus weight
- rougi
rougi
36,686 corpus weight
- Rougier
Rougier
36,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rossa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rossa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rossa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rossa is uncommon French at frequency #63,313 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rosser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rossa, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 rossa, spelled R-O-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rosser.
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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