rotary
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
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type de matériel de forage rotatif.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rotary” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rotary, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,921 among 507,453 “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
- 1Type de matériel de forage rotatif.
- 2Système d'autocommutateur téléphonique, aujourd'hui totalement obsolète.
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.
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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Using “rotary”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-T-A-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “rotor” - see the side-by-side comparison. rotary vs rotor
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.