rotin
\ʁɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“rotin” is uncommon French (frequency #60,344 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,344
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de palmiers, à tige flexible et annelée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotin · rotin · French
rotin · rank #60,344 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,344
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rognons
Nearest frequency peer: rognons (-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 « rotin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Robson
Robson
39,660 corpus weight
- rodée
rodée
39,659 corpus weight
- rognons
rognons
39,658 corpus weight
- rotin
rotin
39,657 corpus weight
- roulera
roulera
39,656 corpus weight
- rpi
rpi
39,655 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rotin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rotin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rotin is uncommon French at frequency #60,344 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rotin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rotin, spelled R-O-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Genre de palmiers, à tige flexible et annelée.
- 2Une tige de cette plante, quand utilisée à la confection d’un objet.
- 3Canne en tige de rotin.
- 4Sonde de jonc pour dégorger les tuyaux des égouts.
- 5Piécette, menue monnaie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rotin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les palmiers, les rotins méritent une mention spéciale. Réunissant environ 300 espèces, dont une cinquantaine est exploitée, les rotins sont présents en Afrique et en Asie du Sud-Est.
Elle déplaça son corps bouffi, le fauteuil de rotin couina comme un tout petit lapin.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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