rot

\ʁo\

/\ʁo\/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“rot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,730) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#34,730
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émission par la bouche, et avec bruit, de gaz stomacaux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rot · rot · French

rot · rank #34,730 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,730
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rompus

Nearest frequency peer: rompus (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rot »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « rot » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rot vs RT
0% similar
rot vs RP
0% similar
rot vs ru
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rot
PropertyValue
Headwordrot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁo\
Letters3
Frequency rank#34,730
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rot »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rotse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rompus » (#34,729), « réceptif » (#34,731), « Ritz » (#34,728). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rot » est au #34,730. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for rot is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁo\. Frequency #34,730 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

rot has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rot, spelled R-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Émission par la bouche, et avec bruit, de gaz stomacaux.
  2. 2
    Cri du chevreuil mâle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et comme les fumées du vin se mêlaient aux nuages de la tristesse et les rots de l’ivresse aux hoquets des sanglots, penché du côté de Protos, il commença par rendre son déjeuner, puis raconta confusément la soirée avec Carola et le deuil de son pucelage.
  2. Il [Fats Waller] avale le contenu du verre d’un seul coup et fait claquer sa langue. Puis il lâche un formidable rot dans le micro : « Attendez, dit-il, ce n’est pas encore ça… Patience, nous y voilà ! » Suivent deux ou trois rots encore plus profonds et accompagnés de yes amusés.

Synonyms

éructationrototo

This word in other languages

burp(English)eructo(Español)arroto(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rot"?
"rot" is spelled R-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁo\.
What does "rot" mean?
As a noun, "rot" means: Émission par la bouche, et avec bruit, de gaz stomacaux.
What words are commonly confused with "rot"?
"rot" is commonly confused with "RT", "RP", "ru". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rot" is \ʁo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rot" come from?
"rot" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pti#34,701UDF#34,796OVH#34,655WWW#34,811

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list