rotin

\ʁɔ.tɛ̃\

/\ʁɔ.tɛ̃\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rotin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rotin
PropertyValue
Headwordrotin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ.tɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#60,344
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rotin » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.rotintombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « rognons » (#60,343), « roulera » (#60,345), « rodée » (#60,342). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rotin » est au #60,344. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Genre de palmiers, à tige flexible et annelée.
  2. 2
    Une tige de cette plante, quand utilisée à la confection d’un objet.
  3. 3
    Canne en tige de rotin.
  4. 4
    Sonde de jonc pour dégorger les tuyaux des égouts.
  5. 5
    Piécette, menue monnaie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rotin"?
"rotin" is spelled R-O-T-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.tɛ̃\.
What does "rotin" mean?
As a noun, "rotin" means: Genre de palmiers, à tige flexible et annelée.
How do you pronounce "rotin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rotin" is \ʁɔ.tɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list