Rothko
The verdict
“Rothko” is uncommon French (frequency #75,172 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,172
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rothko · Rothko · French
Rothko · rank #75,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,172
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rosettes
Nearest frequency peer: rosettes (-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 « Rothko »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- robine
robine
24,834 corpus weight
- romanée
romanée
24,833 corpus weight
- rosettes
rosettes
24,830 corpus weight
- Rothko
Rothko
24,829 corpus weight
- rovere
rovere
24,828 corpus weight
- réapparue
réapparue
24,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rothko » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rothko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rothko » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rothko is uncommon French at frequency #75,172 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Rothko has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Rothko, spelled R-O-T-H-K-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rothko appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mark Rothko (1903)
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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