rotary

noun

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The verdict

“rotary” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,921. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,921
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de matériel de forage rotatif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rotary · rotary · French

rotary · rank #49,921 · 9 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,921
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH roya

Nearest frequency peer: roya (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rotary »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rotary » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

rotary vs rotor
67% similar
rotary vs rôtir
50% similar
rotary vs Rory
50% similar

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

Key facts for rotary
PropertyValue
Headwordrotary
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#49,921
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rotary »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rotaryse 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 « roya » (#49,922), « rébellions » (#49,923), « Robitaille » (#49,918). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rotary » est au #49,921. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around rotary, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,921 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rotary, with forms such as "ortary", "roatry", and "rotarry". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rotor", "rôtir", "Rory", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rotary, spelled R-O-T-A-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Type de matériel de forage rotatif.
  2. 2
    Système d'autocommutateur téléphonique, aujourd'hui totalement obsolète.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La SN REPAL a commencé actuellement deux grands forages : l'un sur l’anticlinal de Rabelais, l'autre sur celui de Warnier. Deux grands rotarys y sont en action.
  2. La compétition est engagée entre un rotary approchant des confins de sa maturation et arrivant non sans peine à compenser, par une mise au point permanente, les difficultés croissantes des problèmes qui lui sont posés, et un turboforage qui a encore des réserves immenses de perfectibilité devant lui.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ortary
  • roatry
  • rotarry
  • rotaryy
  • rotayr
  • rotray
  • rottary
  • rrotary
  • rtoary

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rotary - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ortary2roatry2rotarry1rotaryy1rotayr2rotray2rottary1rrotary1
Edit distance from "rotary"

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 "rotary"?
"rotary" is spelled R-O-T-A-R-Y.
What does "rotary" mean?
As a noun, "rotary" means: Type de matériel de forage rotatif.
What words are commonly confused with "rotary"?
"rotary" is commonly confused with "rotor", "rôtir", "Rory". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "rotary" come from?
"rotary" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

socles#49,945sofres#49,946sucent#49,956quadra#49,884

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

souleva9 variantsstoïque9 variantssuggéra9 variantspullman9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list