rote
\ʁɔt\
The verdict
“rote” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,976
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribunal religieux de la cour de Rome, composé de docteurs ecclésiastiques nommés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rote · rote · French
rote · rank #40,976 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,976
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Roselyne
Nearest frequency peer: Roselyne (-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 « rote »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rocca
rocca
59,028 corpus weight
- Ronsard
Ronsard
59,027 corpus weight
- Roselyne
Roselyne
59,026 corpus weight
- rote
rote
59,025 corpus weight
- royalties
royalties
59,024 corpus weight
- Ruhr
Ruhr
59,023 corpus weight
What this shows « rote » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | rote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rote »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rote (IPA \ʁɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,976 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tribunal religieux de la cour de Rome, composé de docteurs ecclésiastiques nommés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rote, with forms such as "orte", "roet", and "rotte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "rue", "roy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rote, spelled R-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tribunal religieux de la cour de Rome, composé de docteurs ecclésiastiques nommés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auditeurs de rote.
Un jour, un vaste complot eut pour conséquence de le laisser seul avec un Monsignore venu de Palerme qui, après mille circonlocutions et des « Parlons en chrétiens » lancés comme des menaces, lui proposa avocats, procès, Sainte Rote et annulation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orte
- roet
- rotte
- rrote
- rtoe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rote - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).