Rostock
The verdict
“Rostock” is uncommon French (frequency #79,692 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,692
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale, en Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rostock · Rostock · French
Rostock · rank #79,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,692
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rondin
Nearest frequency peer: rondin (-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 « Rostock »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- richissimes
richissimes
20,315 corpus weight
- rion
rion
20,313 corpus weight
- rocailleuse
rocailleuse
20,312 corpus weight
- Rollon
Rollon
20,311 corpus weight
- rondin
rondin
20,310 corpus weight
- Rostock
Rostock
20,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rostock » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rostock |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rostock » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rostock is uncommon French at frequency #79,692 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale, en Allemagne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rostock, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Rostock, spelled R-O-S-T-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1Ville du Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale, en Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rostock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rostock dans la bibliothèque Wikisource
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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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