rôtisserie
\ʁo.ti.sʁi\
The verdict
“rôtisserie” is uncommon French (frequency #77,904 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,904
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où les rôtisseurs vendent leurs viandes rôties ou prêtes à rôtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotisserie · rôtisserie · French
rôtisserie · rank #77,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,904
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réécris
Nearest frequency peer: réécris (-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 « rôtisserie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répertoriant
répertoriant
22,100 corpus weight
- réprimandes
réprimandes
22,099 corpus weight
- réécris
réécris
22,098 corpus weight
- rôtisserie
rôtisserie
22,097 corpus weight
- sacrificiel…
sacrificielle
22,096 corpus weight
- Sadler
Sadler
22,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rôtisserie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rôtisserie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.ti.sʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rôtisserie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rôtisserie is uncommon French at frequency #77,904 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁo.ti.sʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rôtisserie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 rôtisserie, spelled R-Ô-T-I-S-S-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où les rôtisseurs vendent leurs viandes rôties ou prêtes à rôtir.
- 2Type de restaurant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rôtisserie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rôtisserie était bien garnie de viande et de gibier.
Une rôtisserie parisienne était une vaste salle équipée de hautes cheminées où des marmites chauffaient sans interruption sur un feu que l’on n’éteignait jamais.
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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