rostre
\ʁɔstʁ\
The verdict
“rostre” is uncommon French (frequency #78,814 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,814
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éperon dont était armé l’avant des navires romains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rostre · rostre · French
rostre · rank #78,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,814
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Romaric
Nearest frequency peer: Romaric (-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 « rostre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rijeka
Rijeka
21,191 corpus weight
- ripostes
ripostes
21,190 corpus weight
- rist
rist
21,189 corpus weight
- Romaric
Romaric
21,188 corpus weight
- rostre
rostre
21,187 corpus weight
- rovers
rovers
21,184 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rostre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rostre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔstʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rostre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rostre is uncommon French at frequency #78,814 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔstʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for rostre in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rostre, spelled R-O-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Éperon dont était armé l’avant des navires romains.
- 2→ voir rostres.
- 3Sculpture d’ornement en forme d’éperon de navire.
- 4Trompe de certains insectes.
- 5Museau des cétacés.
- 6Prolongement rigide de la tête de certains poissons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rostre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Bordeaux, des rostres sont visibles sur l’entrée principale de l’Hôtel Fenwick, 1, cours Xavier Arnozan.
Les magistrats eurent toutes les peines du monde à calmer la foule, et ils n’auraient pas réussi sans le secours de plusieurs témoins montés sur les rostres pour affirmer que l’empereur était vivant et sur le chemin du retour.
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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