rosse
\ʁɔs\
The verdict
“rosse” is uncommon French (frequency #67,081 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,081
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cheval sans force, sans vigueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rosse · rosse · French
rosse · rank #67,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,081
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rouennaise
Nearest frequency peer: rouennaise (+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 « rosse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Romelu
Romelu
32,923 corpus weight
- rompe
rompe
32,922 corpus weight
- rosse
rosse
32,920 corpus weight
- rouennaise
rouennaise
32,919 corpus weight
- rugueuses
rugueuses
32,918 corpus weight
- rustres
rustres
32,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rosse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rosse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rosse is uncommon French at frequency #67,081 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rosse, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rosse, spelled R-O-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Cheval sans force, sans vigueur.
- 2Personne maligne et dure, méchante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rosse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était un vieux routier qui savait le train des affaires et qui les menait de routine, comme une rosse aveugle tourne la meule d’une brasserie.
Combien de rosses, vendues à l’âge de 5 ans pour la modique somme de 300 francs, auraient valu, si on les avait élevées d’après les véritables principes zootechniques, 800, 1000, et 1200 francs.
This word in other languages
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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