roster
\ʁɔs.te\
The verdict
“roster” is uncommon French (frequency #54,864 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,864
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garnir un bouton de points d’or ou d’argent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roster · roster · French
roster · rank #54,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,864
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rosbif
Nearest frequency peer: rosbif (-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 « roster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rolle
Rolle
45,140 corpus weight
- rooms
rooms
45,139 corpus weight
- rosbif
rosbif
45,138 corpus weight
- roster
roster
45,137 corpus weight
- Ruf
Ruf
45,136 corpus weight
- rusticité
rusticité
45,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔs.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roster is uncommon French at frequency #54,864 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔs.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roster, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is roster, spelled R-O-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garnir un bouton de points d’or ou d’argent.
- 2Lier deux pièces de bois par une corde roulée autour et formant des anneaux très rapprochés.
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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