rotin
French, noun/ʁɔ.tɛ̃/
rotin is spelled R-O-T-I-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rotin is a French masculine noun meaning “rattan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de palmiers, à tige flexible et annelée”.
What does rotin mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerattan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de palmiers, à tige flexible et annelée. 2. Une tige de cette plante, quand utilisée à la confection d’un objet. 3. Canne en tige de rotin. 4. Sonde de jonc pour dégorger les tuyaux des égouts.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rotin
- rotins plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rotin?
- /ʁɔ.tɛ̃/
- \ʁɔ.tɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rotin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rotin in French?
rotin appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).