rossignol
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,864
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
rossignol is aFrenchnoun. It means: Une des espèces de petits oiseaux passereaux réputés pour leur chant varié, harmonieux et pur. Pronounced \ʁɔ.si.ɲɔl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rossignol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.si.ɲɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rossignol is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.si.ɲɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,864 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for rossignol, with forms such as "orssignol", "rosignol", and "rosisgnol". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 rossignol, spelled R-O-S-S-I-G-N-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de petits oiseaux passereaux réputés pour leur chant varié, harmonieux et pur.
- 2Crochet de serrurerie, clé « passe-partout » ou jeu de passepartouts.
- 3Objet démodé, vieilli en magasin.
- 4Petite flûte, sifflet ou jeu d’orgue.
- 5Maladie de la peau caractérisée par des ulcérations des doigts, souvent d’origine professionnelle. → voir rossignol des tanneurs
- 6Morceau de bois destiné à bloquer le tenon dans la mortaise, ou pour compenser une mortaise trop grande.
- 7Petit sifflet utilisé par le maître d'équipage pour donner ses ordres.
- 8Fistule artificielle qu'autrefois les maréchaux-ferrants faisaient venir sous la queue d'un cheval poussif croyant ainsi donner une issue au gaz intestinaux, qui selon eux gênaient le cheval.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orssignol,rosignol,rosisgnol,rossginol,rossiggnol,rossignlo,rossignnol,rossignoll,rossigonl,rossingol,rrossignol,rsosignol
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rossignol
Misspelling Variants of "rossignol"
Frequency rank: #18,864 in French
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